Twitter says hackers targeted 130 accounts this week as high-profile handles were hacked

Twitter Inc on July 16 informed that about 130 accounts were hacked during this week's cyberattack that also targeted some high-profile handles on platform. Twitter said that for a small subset of accounts targeted, attackers were able to gain control of handles and n send tweets from those accounts. micro-blogging platform said that it is working with impacted owners and will continue to do so for next several days. company said that it is continuing to assess wher n-public data related to se accounts were compromised in attack. 

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"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. For all accounts, downloing Your Twitter Data is still disabled while we continue this investigation," company said in a series of tweets issued on July 17. According to reports, FBI is leing an inquiry into matter as to who was behind attacks.

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On July 15, high-profile celebrities such as Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Joe Biden and many ors, 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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'Tough day'

Following attack, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey h posted, "Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We’re diagsing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened. Love(Blue emoji) to our teammates working hard to make this right."

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