Twitter says hackers "manipulated" some of its employees in bitcoin scam

In a statement about security breach on Twitter that compromised high-profile accounts including that of democratic presential runner Joe Biden, former US president Barack Obama, and tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Twitter says that hackers "manipulated" some of its employees to gain access.

Bitcoin spam messs were tweeted out of official accounts of Apple, Uber, Bill Gates, and many or VIPs with hackers funnelled over $100,000 worth of virtual currency, according to Blockchain.com, a site that monitors crypto transactions.  

"We kw that y accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts," Twitter said in a statement on its official site.

“We believe attackers targeted certain Twitter employees through a social engineering scheme,” it ded, saying, that hackers manipulated employees into using ir credentials and decoding two-factor protections to access Twitter’s internal systems.

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"We’re embarrassed": Twitter

As per a forensic review done by Twitter, company found that usernames were “sold” to spammers and attackers initiated a password reset, n logged in to accounts to send Tweets. Furr,  attackers took an ditional step of downloing account’s information through our “Your Twitter Data” tool, Twitter revealed in statement. 

 In a drastic step to regaining control of accounts, Twitter locked down compromised accounts immediately. ditionally, incident response team “secured and revoked access” to internal systems to shut out attackers in remediation steps. 

We’re embarrassed, we’re disappointed, and more than anything, we’re sorry. We kw that we must work to regain your trust, and we will support all efforts to bring perpetrators to justice, Twitter said.

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Donald Trump’s account remains untargeted

While Twitter mand to take down fraudulent tweets, Twitter regretted statement that spammers were able to access personal information of verified accounts, including email dresses and phone numbers. However, it said that authorities were working to identify  perpetrators. 

According to a report, attack was drafted by a group of young friends with previously kwn links to state or organized crime, who were heed by an individual who goes by an alias ‘Kirk’. group h previously taken control of lesser-kwn accounts, however, until recently, middleman ‘Kirk’ me high profile accounts a target. 

President of US Donald Trump’s account, however, remains untargeted. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told a press conference that US president’s account “was secure and t jeopardised during se attacks.” 

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