Twitter Accounts Of Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos Hacked In High Profile Cyber Attack Linked To Bitcoin Scam
But the corporate indicated to Vice’s Motherboard, a tech-centered publication, that whoever was behind the breach had gotten someone inside Twitter to provide the entry willingly. Motherboard reported that individuals who claimed responsibility for the assault had labored with somebody at Twitter and that one person stated the Twitter worker was paid for the entry.
The downside of company insiders’ opening the door to hackers has also become a nationwide security problem at the heart of worldwide espionage schemes. In November, the Justice Department charged two former Twitter employees with providing consumer data to Saudi Arabia. And in 2017, a Twitter employee briefly shut down President Donald Trump’s account. Giovanna Falbo, a spokesperson for Twitter, declined to remark past the corporate’s tweets.
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Twitter Lost Control Of Its Internal Systems To Bitcoin-scamming Hackers
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