Twitter has released more information about the major hack on Wednesday, July 15, resulting in a large number of high-profile accounts tweeting a fake message as part of the bitcoin scam.
In several tweets posted on Thursday evening, the company said that about 130 accounts were targeted in the breech, about being able to give access to the social media site’s system after hackers cheated several Twitter employees Has been thought
“Based on what we know right now, we believe that about 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers as part of the incident somehow,” Twitter said. But it also states that attackers were only able to tweet from a “small subset” of these accounts.
Based on what we know right now, we believe that about 130 accounts were targeted as part of the incident in some way by the attackers. For a small subset of these accounts, attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send tweets from those accounts.
– Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 17, 2020
In another tweet, it stated that it was working with affected account holders to determine if any non-public data was stolen by criminals.
We are working with affected account owners and will continue to do so for the next several days. We are continuing to assess whether non-public data related to these accounts were tampered with, and if we determine that will provide updates.
– Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 17, 2020
In another post, Twitter said that it is also taking “aggressive steps” to secure its system, while looking at what happened, “we are still in the process of assessing the long-term steps we take And share more details as soon as we can. “
Former President Barack Obama and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden were among the accounts hacked. Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, entertainer Kanye West and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were also targeted, as were tech companies Apple and Uber.
The scam involved a fake tweet that encouraged followers of each account to send payments to a bitcoin wallet. It had some success, as revealed by data from Blockchain.com that more than $ 115,000 was sent through 392 transactions to a bitcoin wallet posted in messages.
Twitter is now trying to track down criminals in association with the FBI, it surfaced on Thursday.
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