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Twitter suffered a massive hijack of a number of high profile verified accounts some using 2FA. Phishing, insider action, use of internal admin tools have all been reported. The attack pushed a bitcoin scam through 130 accounts and downloaded user data from at least 8. Was there more? Was this an attacker's opportunity squandered?
- Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised
- Musk, Obama, Biden, Bezos, Gates—bitcoin scam hits Twitter in coordinated blitz https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/musk-obama-biden-bezos-gates-bitcoin-scam-hits-twitter-in-coordinated-blitz/
- Twitter lost control of its internal systems to Bitcoin-scamming hackers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/twitter-lost-control-of-its-internal-systems-to-bitcoin-scamming-hackers/
- Twitter says hack of key staff led to celebrity, politician, biz account hijack mega-spree https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/16/twitter_account_hijack_latest/
- Twitter reveals that its own employee tools contributed to unprecedented hack https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326656/twitter-hack-explanation-bitcoin-accounts-employee-tools
- Twitter Hackers May Have Bribed an Insider https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/twitter_hackers.html
- Twitter shut off the ability for many people to tweet after massive hack https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326372/twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-new-tweets-shut-off-verified-accounts
- Twitter blocked tweets from verified accounts after a massive security breach https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/15/1005290/twitter-blocks-all-tweets-from-verified-accounts-after-massive-security-breach/
- Twitter says hackers downloaded the data of eight users in Wednesday's hack https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-hackers-downloaded-the-data-of-eight-users-in-wednesdays-hack
- The Twitter Hack Could Have Been Much Worse—and Maybe Was https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-hack-could-have-been-much-worse/
- Twitter's Bitcoin hackers had almost limitless access https://www.engadget.com/twitter-bitcoin-scam-social-engineering-hack-access-193040357.html
- The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/7/15/21325708/twitter-hack-global-security-crisis-nuclear-war-bitcoin-scam
- Twitter hack alarms experts already concerned about platform’s security https://globalnews.ca/news/7183042/twitter-hack-security/ and https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/twitter-breach-hack-1.5651675
- Twitter Struggles to Unpack a Hack Within Its Walls https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/technology/twitter-hack-investigation.html
- Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
- Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html
- FBI investigates major Twitter attack https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53439585
- Lawmakers demand more details on Twitter’s massive hack https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/16/21327249/twitter-bitcoin-scam-congress-action-ed-markey-josh-hawley
- Twitter Hack Update: What We Know (and What We Don’t) https://threatpost.com/the-great-twitter-hack-what-we-know-what-we-dont/157538/
- After This Week’s Hack, It Is Past Time for Twitter to End-to-End Encrypt Direct Messages https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/after-weeks-hack-it-past-time-twitter-end-end-encrypt-direct-messages
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