Twitter Hack Highlights Chaos Of Responding To Cyberattacks Wsj Oakland, calif. (ap) — twitter says 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. Twitter said hackers targeted 130 accounts on wednesday, part of a cyberattack that succeeded in gaining access to the accounts of joe biden, jeff bezos, kim kardashian west, bill gates.
How An Online Attack Brought Twitter To Its Knees The New York Times Twitter said thursday night that 130 accounts were targeted in a hacking incident this week that constituted one of the biggest security breaches suffered by the social media platform. In its latest statement, twitter said that the hackers were able to gain control to a "small subset" of the targeted accounts, and send tweets from them. Twitter said late thursday that about 130 people were targeted in a cyberattack that took control of high profile accounts to promote a bitcoin scam. the hackers received $121,000 from over 400. T witter inc. revealed hackers targeted just 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week that compromised some of the world’s most recognizable people, though no passwords were stolen.
Twitter Hacked 250 000 Accounts Affected Cnn Business Twitter said late thursday that about 130 people were targeted in a cyberattack that took control of high profile accounts to promote a bitcoin scam. the hackers received $121,000 from over 400. T witter inc. revealed hackers targeted just 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week that compromised some of the world’s most recognizable people, though no passwords were stolen. Citing two former twitter employees, reuters reported thursday the internal systems let anyone with access change settings and transfer control to others, two tactics that were seemingly abused. In its latest statement, twitter said that the hackers were able to gain control to a "small subset" of the targeted accounts, and send tweets from them. The twitter hackers behind the unprecedented coordinated july 15 attack on high profile accounts of multiple celebrities, politicians, tech titans and silicon valley companies went after about.