Twitter Hack Update: Coordinated social engineering attack, says Twitter

KATHMANDU: Multiple high profile Twitter accounts were hacked in the wee hours of Thursday morning, soliciting Bitcoin donations.

The  company’s support has now stated that the hacking was a social engineering attack which targeted employees with access to internal information.

“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools,” Twitter Support said.

In a thread of explanations to what transpired and what steps will be taken further to reduce risks,Twitter said that the compromised accounts have been locked for now till security issues are addressed.

We have locked accounts that were compromised and will restore access to the original account owner only when we are certain we can do so securely.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020

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