Twitter said hackers targeted 130 Conti to Cyber ​​Attack

Twitter said hackers targeted 130 Conti to Cyber ​​Attack

Twitter Inc. has revealed hackers only 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week targeting the some of the most famous people in the world at risk, even if no passwords were stolen. The US company said the unidentified authors control a subset had won these accounts and were able to send tweets. Twitter has blocked the download of data on accounts such as his investigation continues, said its online support page. “We work with the owners of impacted accounts and will do so again in the coming days,” the company said. “We continue to consider whether the available updates were not compromised in these public-accounts data and perform when you’re that occurred prior notice.” Details penetrate through the hack, affected politics and the global economy, including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, former US president Barack Obama and Tesla CEO Elon Musk Inc .. try those who have used the ‘gained access to the accounts of a Bitcoin fraud, sending tweets asking for people to give money in exchange for a larger payment. https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1283957911841054721 Twitter grappling with the worst breach of security in its history of 14 years. It is said that the hack part of a “coordinated social engineering attack” is designed to target and its employees. Hackers grant access to some of the internal systems of the company, and high-level user accounts, he said. The Twitter verified accounts temporarily halt forced out not to be sent tweet. Twitter is still probing how the attack was carried out and it is not known if other information from the accounts – has been compromised – such as data such as private messages. The statement the company has so far turned on speculation about the identity of the perpetrators and what in the attack in fact targeting. The extent of the effort and its timing – months before the US elections in November – has invited some computer experts to theorize that the attack disguised to make a shameful campaign sensitive data. Some people, access can be blocked on their accounts, they changed their password in the last 30 days still, the company said it before, but that does not mean that these accounts have been compromised. “We have no evidence that the attackers access to passwords,” he said in a Twitter update Thursday. “Currently we do not believe the password reset is required.” It takes “significant steps to limit access to internal systems and tools, while our investigation is ongoing.” She immediately called on Twitter to share US politicians more information. “To take the leading accounts The ability of bad actors, although volatile, has reported a worrying weakness in this media environment,” Democratic Senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of the intelligence committee, and one of the tech industry critics acute, has He said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also investigating the hack.
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