{"id":30411,"date":"2020-07-20T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twitter-embarrassed-about-hack-which-targeted-130-accounts\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:55:00","slug":"twitter-embarrassed-about-hack-which-targeted-130-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-embarrassed-about-hack-which-targeted-130-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"#Twitter \u2018embarrassed\u2019 about hack which targeted 130 accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Twitter<\/a> \u2018embarrassed\u2019 about hack which targeted 130 accounts<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 19, 2020 |<\/span> 5:55pm <\/p>\n

\n OAKLAND, Calif. \u2014 Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers were able to reset the passwords of 45 of those accounts.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post Saturday that for up to eight of these accounts the attackers also download<\/a>ed the account\u2019s information through the \u201cYour Twitter Data\u201d tool. None of the eight were verified accounts, Twitter said, adding that it is contacting the owners of the affected accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re embarrassed, we\u2019re disappointed, and more than anything, we\u2019re sorry. We know that we must work to regain your trust, and we will support all efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice,\u201d Twitter said in the blog post.<\/p>\n

The July 17 attack broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls in one of the most high-profile security breaches in recent years. The attackers sent out tweets from the accounts of the public figures, offering to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to an anonymous Bitcoin address.<\/p>\n

It highlighted a major flaw with the service millions of people have come to rely on as an essential communications tool.<\/p>\n

Allison Nixon, chief research officer at cybersecurity firm 221B said in an email Sunday that the people behind the attack appear to have come from the \u201cOG\u201d community, a group interested in original, short Twitter handles such as @a, @b or @c, for instance.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased upon what we have seen, the motivation for the most recent Twitter attack is similar to previous incidents we have observed in the OG community \u2014 a combination of financial incentive, technical bragging rights, challenge, and disruption,\u201d Nixon wrote. \u201cThe OG community is not known to be tied to any nation state. Rather they are a disorganized crime community with a basic skillset and are a loosely organized group of serial fraudsters.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this attack did not appear to go further than the Bitcoin ruse \u2014 at least for now \u2014 it raises questions about Twitter\u2019s ability to secure its service against election interference and misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cEntire markets and potentially elections may be manipulated or altered in this way,\u201d Nixon said. \u201cVictims of account takeovers general<\/a>ly do not know that the fraud has occurred, and generally cannot take security precautions to prevent it.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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