The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post Saturday that for up to eight of these accounts the attackers also downloaded the account's information through the "Your Twitter Data" tool. None of the eight were verified accounts, Twitter said, adding that it is contacting the owners of the affected accounts.
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.
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 "OG" community, a group interested in original, short Twitter handles such as Γåòa, Γåòb or Γåòc, for instance.
Gotta love 2020..LOL.'Your account is 100% safe with us'.The new Couldn't secure a lemonade stand anti-everything from AVG,AVAST,PANDA,ETCETC.Not even your evil blonde wife will get into your banking and personal info.*Do to volitility we cannot protect you,ever.
You are pretty slow bro
And under investigation!
I wouldn’t be embarrassed, it happens.
Twitter:
......company 'embarrassed' But have they apologized? That's the thing.
There's a lot more than that Twitter should be embarrassed about.
Up from 8 yesterday.
With all the T M I crap on here you see daily I would not worry too much 😂