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REUTERS: Twitter had stepped up its search for a chief information security officer in recent weeks, two people familiar with the effort told Reuters, before the breach of high-profile accounts on Wednesday raised alarms about the platform's security.
The company said in a statement that it was continuing to lock accounts that had changed passwords in the past month, but said"we believe only a small subset of these locked accounts were compromised." Twitter declined to comment on the job search.In a sign of how much the attacked unnerved US lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans showed rare bipartisan agreement that Twitter must better explain how the security lapse happened and what it was doing to prevent future attacks.
The White House had been in"constant contact with Twitter over the last 18 hours" to keep Trump's Twitter feed secure, she said. The company, which has been without a security chief since December, said the hackers conducted a"coordinated social engineering attack" against its employees. In an extraordinary step, Twitter temporarily prevented many verified accounts from publishing messages as it investigated the breach.
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