Twitter Bitcoin Hack: Everything Company Has Said After Claim of Employee Involvement – By Jason Murdock (Newsweek) / July 16 2020
Twitter’s security team says “significant steps” have been taken to limit access to its backend systems after an unprecedented cyberattack.
The social networking giant suffered a major hack overnight as a series of high-profile accounts—including Elon Musk, Apple, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos—were compromised to spread a cryptocurrency scam to millions of followers.
The graphic below, provided by Statista, highlights the largest accounts affected by the hack.
The scam itself is not new—the scale, however, was on a far greater level than ever seen before. The culprits who orchestrated the attack are unknown at the time of writing, but Twitter has released information giving its perspective on the intrusion.
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