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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by cryptica on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:29PM (#23852148)
My bet is that some Tweet posting API is missing a critical authentication check or the hackers found a way to bypass this check.

I doubt someone could individually hack all these accounts.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by andy_ppp on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:21PM (#23853657)
I mean why can they not stop the api? Why not just switch it off for a few minutes and figure out what is happening?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by cryptica on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:40PM (#23853850)
They would need time to figure out which API endpoint is affected. Twitter is not going to shut down everything just because one endpoint has a possible issue.
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