Twitter: 8 accounts had all their data downloaded in giant hack - Business Insider

, Twitter offered some more detail.

"As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts. For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets," Twitter said.

Twitter gave no details on which accounts these were or what they might have in common. Numerous reports have linked the attack with a community of hackers obsessed with so-called "OG" accounts with super-short Twitter handles.reported that hours before the Bitcoin links started being tweeted on Wednesday, a handful of OG accounts, including "@6," were also hijacked.Twitter also provided more detail about how the hackers managed to crack into its systems.

Twitter said the hackers had managed to gain access to an internal company tool using a "coordinated social engineering attack," on Wednesday. Social engineering is a term which means hackers manipulate, trick, or convince their target to hand over access to a system, rather than technically hacking.

"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," Twitter said in its Friday blog. It did not say how the employees were manipulated. On Thursday,In its blog, the company said it would be implementing extra training to guard against social engineering.

mukeshsharda And yet, twitter has shown no sense of responsibility by explaining how such a breach happened, what has been done to compensate whose privacy has been breached, what steps have been taken to prevent similar breaches in future. Infact people are not appalled is what bother me.

At least they’re honest about it unlike Mark Liarberg

sabotagebeats How about the shadow banning options visible in the screencaps? Are we going to talk about those?

You should look worried jack

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