Twitter disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyberattack this week, an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations were compromised. In its latest statement, Twitter said that the hackers were able to gain control to a "small subset" of the targeted accounts, and send tweets from them. SEE ALSO: Twitter silences some top accounts after internal systems hackedThe company added that it was continuing to assess whether the attackers were able to access private data of the targeted accounts. The law enforcement agency said that cyber attackers committed cryptocurrency fraud in the incident. SEE ALSO: Twitter hacking spree alarms experts“We’re still in the process of assessing longer-term steps that we may take and will share more details as soon as we can,” Twitter added in its statement.

Source: Standard Digital July 17, 2020 05:37 UTC