OAKLAND, California: A Twitter hacking scheme that targeted political, corporate and cultural luminaries this week began with a teasing message between two hackers late Tuesday on the online messaging platform Discord. “i work at twitter / don’t show this to anyone / seriously.”He then demonstrated that he could take control of valuable Twitter accounts — the sort of thing that would require insider access to the company’s computer network. The interviews indicate that the attack was not the work of a single country like Russia or a sophisticated group of hackers. They also presented corroborating evidence of their involvement, including the logs from their conversations on Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers and hackers, and Twitter. For online gamers, Twitter users and hackers, so-called OG usernames — usually a short word or even a number — are hotly desired.

Source: Bangkok Post July 18, 2020 09:00 UTC