OAKLAND, California -- Twitter said the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers...
OAKLAND, California -- Twitter said the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers were able to reset the passwords of 45 of those accounts.
“We’re embarrassed, we’re disappointed, and more than anything, we’re sorry. We know that we must work to regain your trust, and we will support all efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice,” Twitter said in the blog post. It highlighted a major flaw with the service millions of people have come to rely on as an essential communications tool.
"Based upon what we have seen, the motivation for the most recent Twitter attack is similar to previous incidents we have observed in the OG community — a combination of financial incentive, technical bragging rights, challenge, and disruption,” Nixon wrote. “The OG community is not known to be tied to any nation state. Rather they are a disorganized crime community with a basic skill set and are a loosely organized group of serial fraudsters.
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