Hundreds of Twitter employees have access to agent tools, according to one of the people who participated in the former-employee discussions. Once the hackers were able to alter the user passwords, they could log into the Twitter accounts as if they were the rightful owners. In other words, the hacked users could have been looking at their Twitter accounts as if nothing had changed. The company faced a bribery scandal last year when federal prosecutors accused two former Twitter employees of spying for Saudi Arabia. These limitations may help explain why the hackers targeted a wide range of current Twitter employees.

Source: CNN July 17, 2020 23:03 UTC