Security News > 2020 > July > Twitter Says Hackers Accessed DM Inboxes in Recent Attack
Twitter on Wednesday revealed that attackers accessed the direct message inboxes of some of the accounts that were compromised in last week's security incident.
The attack took place on July 15 and involved the abuse of internal Twitter systems and tools to gain access to high-profile accounts such as those of Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates, or Elon Musk, and post fake messages promoting a crypto-currency scam.
"8 is the number of accounts where an archive of 'Your Twitter Data' was downloaded. This includes all of *your* account activity including DMs. None of the YTD downloads impacted Verified accounts," the company said in a tweet.
On July 22, Twitter also revealed that the attackers accessed the DM inboxes of 36 of the 130 targeted accounts.
The attack is believed to be the work of hackers interested in the compromise of "Original gangster" accounts, or OG accounts, who also engage in SIM swapping activities.
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