Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands. Twitter previously said the attackers tweeted from 45 “verified” accounts, including those belonging to such well-known names as CEOs Elon Musk and Bill Gates and former Vice President Joe Biden. SEE ALSO: Twitter will suspend accounts tweeting about conspiracy theory group QAnonAsked by Reuters if the 36 accounts where messages might have been read included any verified accounts, Twitter said it would not answer. That would make it likely that some of the most famous people in the world had private messages read by hackers still at large. The downloading tool does not provide access to Twitter messages, a spokeswoman said.

Source: Standard Digital July 23, 2020 07:30 UTC