Republican senator demands answers after Twitter hack
“ ‘A successful attack on your system’s servers represents a threat to all of your users’ privacy and data security. ... Did this attack threaten the security of the President’s own Twitter account?’ ”
President Donald Trump, who often makes news with his posts on the social-media platform, didn’t appear to have been among the users hacked, but presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama both had accounts taken over. Democratic lawmakers also reacted to the hack, with Rep. Jim Langevin of Rhode Island tweeting that he had just testified at a hearing on Wednesday on “the point that the @WhiteHouse needs a #NationalCyberDirector to help stop this type of activity — and, more importantly, prevent a catastrophic event.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York warned her followers that “if my account tweets any bizarre links related to cryptocurrency, do NOT click on it.
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