OAKLAND, Calif. — A Twitter hacking scheme that targeted political, corporate and cultural elites this week began with a teasing message between two hackers late Tuesday on the online messaging platform Discord.
"yoo bro," wrote a user named "Kirk," according to a screenshot of the conversation shared with The New York Times. "i work at twitter / don't show this to anyone / seriously."
He then demonstrated that he could take control of valuable Twitter accounts — the sort of thing that would require insider access to the company's computer network.
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Last year the giant resort firm MGM Grand was hacked and the cybercriminals ostensibly obtained a massive dump of names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Now according to vendors on the deep web, hackers have been trying to sell the data dump for monero or bitcoin. The hackers claim the dump has over 142 million MGM Grand guests’ information.
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Twitter has provided a glimpse into its investigation of last week's security breach , the worst in its 14-year history, as hackers commandeered more than 100 high-profile accounts.
"At this time, we believe attackers targeted certain Twitter employees through a social engineering scheme," the San Francisco-based microblogging service wrote on its blog over the weekend.
Twitter said the cyberattackers managed to manipulate a "small" number of employees' accounts and used their credentials to access Twitter's internal systems to divulge confidential information.
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When security researchers piece together the blow-by-blow of a state-sponsored hacking operation, they're usually following a thin trail of malicious code samples, network logs, and connections to faraway servers. That detective work gets significantly easier when hackers record what they're doing and upload the video to an unprotected server on the open internet. Which is precisely what a group of Iranian hackers may have unwittingly done.
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A Twitter hacking scheme that targeted political, corporate and cultural elites this week began with a teasing message between two hackers late Tuesday on online messaging platform Discord. "yoo bro," wrote a user named "Kirk," according to a screenshot of the conversation shared with The New York Times. "i work at twitter / don't show this to anyone / seriously.
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The account hijacks hit some of the most prominent users on the social media platform, including leading cryptocurrency sites, but also ensnared several celebrity accounts, notably Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden.
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A Twitter spokesperson, when reached, did not comment on the claims. Twitter later confirmed in a series of tweets that the attack was caused by “a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”
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Hackers Tell the Story of the #TwitterAttack From the #Inside https://t.co/teSRKHvOpn #fintech #CyberSecurity… https://t.co/7LAP8cHqfi SpirosMargaris (from All Over the World) Sat Jul 18 06:31:57 +0000 2020
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