The American microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, on Saturday confirmed that the recent attack on accounts of prominent figures was carried out by hackers who infiltrated the company's internal systems using several employees' credentials. The social media company admitted that the attackers appear to have used social engineering tactics to force employees to take certain actions and divulge key information. Additionally, the hackers took steps to begin downloading statistics from eight of those accounts. For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account’s information through our “Your Twitter Data” tool. The New York Times reported that the attack was coordinated between four people, one of whom said he was a Twitter employee.

Source: dna July 18, 2020 07:52 UTC