Hackers ‘Manipulated’ Employees To Access Top Twitter Accounts – Report
In this file photo illustration, a Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile phone on May 27, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. Olivier DOULIERY / AFPTwitter says hackers “manipulated” some of its employees to access accounts in a high-profile attack on the social media company, including those of Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
“We know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts,” said a statement posted Saturday on Twitter’s blog. The paper said it interviewed four people who participated in the hacking, who shared logs and screenshots backing up their accounts of what happened.
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