There have been hacks of high-profile individual accounts on Twitter before, including Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey last year. Users with the check mark indicating that their accounts were verified by Twitter reported that they weren’t able to tweet. Trump’s Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes in 2017 by a departing employee for the company. After the incident, Twitter tweeted that it had “implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again.” It declined to share details at the time. The hacks Wednesday differ from another high-profile hack last year against Twitter CEO Dorsey, in which his phone number was hacked and used to send tweets via text message.

Source: Washington Post July 15, 2020 21:24 UTC