The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform's security and resilience in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election.
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON - The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s security and resilience in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election.
In a series of tweets, the company said: “We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.” Twitter’s role as a critical communications platform for political candidates and public officials, including President Donald Trump, has led to fears that hackers could wreak havoc with the Nov. 3 presidential election or otherwise compromise national security.
The damage to Twitter’s reputation may be more serious. Most troubling to some was how long the company took to stop the bad tweets. Twitter said it was not yet certain what the hackers may have done beyond sending the bitcoin messages.
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Dozens of Twitter verified accounts hackedTwitter faces an unprecedented hacking attack on a number of its high profile users: “What it appears is that somebody has write access, which means they can write whatever tweet they want,” oneunderscore__ says.
Read more »
Twitter Hacked In Massive Bitcoin Scam: Joe Biden, Elon Musk Accounts Among Dozens HackedThe tweets asked users to donate to a bitcoin wallet and receive a 2x return.
Read more »
Elon Musk And Joe Biden's Twitter Accounts Were Hacked In A Bitcoin ScamHackers took over some of Twitter's biggest accounts to solicit bitcoin on Wednesday.
Read more »
Twitter Accounts of Elon Musk, Kanye West, Joe Biden Hacked in Apparent Bitcoin ScamThe compromised accounts all tweeted the same message, offering to &34;give back to the community&34; to people who sent Bitcoin to a specific wallet address.
Read more »
Many verified Twitter accounts able to post again after hackingTwitter users with verified accounts started to be able to send tweets again at around 8:30 pm EDT, after the company had silenced some of its highest-profile users in response to an hours-long security incident.
Read more »