Twitter Reveals 130 Accounts Were Compromised By Hackers

The Twitter Support Group revealed on Friday, that about 130 accounts were compromised by hackers.

The accounts included that of prominent figures (Barack Obama, Bill Gates, others) who have massive twitter followers.

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The hackers, had, through the accounts, promoted a cyptocurrency scam.

“Based on what we know right now, we believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident.

“For a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts,” the support group stated.

Twitter stated that it would keep monitoring those accounts for the next week.

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Its statement further reads:

“For all accounts, downloading Your Twitter Data is still disabled while we continue this investigation.

“We have also been taking aggressive steps to secure our systems while our investigations are ongoing.

“We’re still in the process of assessing longer-term steps that we may take and will share more details as soon as we can.”

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