Twitter says hackers accessed direct messages of 36 handles in latest breach

Twitter on July 23 anunced that during latest breach of 130 accounts on its platform, attackers took control of 36 handles and viewed Direct Messs inbox. Twitter Inc on July 16 h informed that about 130 accounts were hacked during last week's cyberattack that also targeted some high-profile handles on platform. Twitter said that a total of 45 accounts targeted, attackers were able to gain control of handles and n send tweets from those accounts. As per Twitter, eight unverified accounts h an archive of 'Your Twitter Data' downloed during attack. 

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On July 15, high-profile celebrities such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and many ors, including corporate accounts of Uber and Apple, all of whom have verified profiles were targeted by Bitcoin scammers. hackers tweeted spam messs from se profiles and asked ir followers to send money to a specified Bitcoin wallet. This was one of worst security breaches in history of social media.

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'Investigations are ongoing'

Following attack, Twitter informed that it was working with impacted account owners and will continue to do so over next several days. "We are continuing to assess wher n-public data related to se accounts were compromised and will provide updates if we determine that occurred. We have also been taking aggressive steps to secure our systems while our investigations are ongoing. We’re still in process of assessing longer-term steps that we may take and will share more details as soon as we can," micro-blogging platform h said last week in a series of tweets. 

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