The coordinated hack attacked high-profile accounts belonging to Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and tweeted out a fake bitcoin deal. After more than an hour, Twitter shut down tweets from all verified accounts and didn’t restore them for more than two hours. That could mean blackmailing or bribing someone to gain access to accounts or even an insider carrying out a hack themselves. That feature hasn’t been released and Wyden called it a “vulnerability.” It is unclear if the hackers could access accounts’ private messages. “If hackers gained access to users’ DMs, this breach could have a breathtaking impact for years to come,” Wyden tweeted.

Source: Washington Post July 16, 2020 18:30 UTC