Security News > 2021 > April > Twitter accidentally sends suspicious emails asking to confirm accounts
Twitter caused quite the panic Thursday night when they accidentally sent emails asking users to confirm their accounts, which looked suspiciously like a phishing attack.
These emails began around 10 PM EST, with numerous Twitter accounts operated by BleepingComputer and its writers receiving the emails.
These emails used the subject "Confirm your Twitter account" and included a button labeled 'Confirm Now.' Even though the links in the emails all looked legitimate, as we were not expecting these emails, we immediately became suspicious that it was a phishing attack.
Yogi Bear April 23, 2021 Getting emails from "Twitter" to confirm my account.
The Twitter email is from the authentic address but there is missing punc in the business address at the bottom of the email itself which tends to be a giveaway it's phishing rather than authentic.
It turns out that the confirmation emails were not a phishing attack but simply an accident by Twitter, as confirmed by the Twitter Support account.