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Twitter has confirmed hackers made use of tools that were expected to have just been available to its own staff to carry off Wednesday’s hack attack.
The breach saw the accounts of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Bill Gates among other stars used to tweet a Bitcoin fraud.
Twitter likewise exposed the criminals had actually downloaded data from as much as eight of the accounts included.
It decreased to reveal their identities however stated none of them were “confirmed”.
This indicates they did not have a blue tick to verify their ownership, and hence were not among the most high-profile hacked accounts.
Nevertheless, the truth the aggressors were able to use the Your Twitter Data download tool implies they now possibly have access to affected users’:
- personal direct messages, including images and videos
- contacts, which Twitter’s app would have imported from their smartphone address books
- details about the accounts they had silenced and blocked
- interest and demographic details Twitter had actually inferred about them via their usage of its platform
In total, Twitter stated 130 accounts had actually been targeted, of which the hackers had handled to reset the passwords of 45, providing them control.
” The assaulters successfully controlled a small number of staff members and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal systems,” it said in a declaration.
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