Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by humaniania on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:58PM (#23852614)

Seems more likely to me that it was a Twitter employee or someone with access to an employee's PC to reset passwords.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by dividedbyzero on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:18PM (#23852939)

But wouldn't that be evident very, very quickly, from just looking at a relevant account's audit log, and shut down right away?

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by londons_explore on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:29PM (#23853089)

But it was shut down right away...

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by shawabawa3 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:32PM (#23853118)

I think it only stopped in the last few minutes. It lasted hours

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by fullshark on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:51PM (#23853338)

I also think the exploit wasn't stopped, they just stopped all verified accounts from tweeting.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by akavi on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:06PM (#23853495)

They also shipped a block on tweeting the address: https://twitter.com/_akavi/status/1283524504866586624

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by toby on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:50PM (#23854864)

A senior engineer (juniors would not have this level of access) risking their job and facing prosecution for an amount that would certainly be far less than their salary? That doesn't seem likely.

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