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Hackers involved in the high-profile hijacking of Twitter accounts earlier this week were young pals with no links to state or organized crime, The New York Times reported Friday. "Based on what we know right now, we believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident," Twitter said in a tweet.
"The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter's internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections. As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts," Twitter wrote. Attackers accessed the Twitter account feature "Your Twitter Data" for eight accounts.
Twitter has said that around 130 accounts were targeted by miscreants this week as high-profile individuals and businesses had their accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam. The estimate comes days after the social media biz admitted the blitz - which snared the accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Uber and former President Barack Obama - was the result of "Coordinated social engineering".
Several high-profile Twitter accounts were targeted recently in an attack that involved the hackers accessing internal Twitter systems and tools. Twitter has only shared limited technical information about the attack, but some victims say the attackers hijacked their accounts by changing the associated email address and initiating the password reset process.
Motherboard is reporting that this week's Twitter hack involved a bribed insider. While I know everyone wants to speculate about the details of the hack, we just don't know - and probably won't for a couple of weeks.
Approximately 130 accounts were targeted during the recent attack on Twitter, the social media giant has revealed. The accounts were compromised after the attackers managed to gain access to internal Twitter systems and tools.
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously in what's a far-reaching hacking campaign carried out to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Following the tweets, the accounts for Apple, Uber, Mike Bloomberg, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all posted tweets soliciting bitcoins using the exact same Bitcoin address as the one included on the CryptoForHealth website.
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously in what's a far-reaching hacking campaign carried out to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Following the tweets, the accounts for Apple, Uber, Mike Bloomberg, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all posted tweets soliciting bitcoins using the exact same Bitcoin address as the one included on the CryptoForHealth website.
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to internal Twitter administrative tools.
Following the hacks of verified Twitter accounts for several high-profile people, including Bill Gates and Joe Biden, how can you prevent your own account from falling into the wrong hands? In the meantime if this type of attack was able to breach verified accounts, what can regular Twitter users do to protect their own accounts from being hacked? Let's look at the security controls offered by Twitter.