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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by hombre_fatal on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:21PM (#23855045)
My guess is that a Twitter insider sold access.

I bet the reason Trump didn't get hacked was because he is special-cased in the Twitter system to avoid insider vandalism which protected his account from this insider attack.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by bmarquez on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:43PM (#23855168)
I believe you are right, a rogue Twitter employee had previously[1] deleted Trump's account. So there must have been some special protection to prevent it from happening again.

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-em...

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by solarkraft on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:59AM (#23857399)
I find it interesting that this kind of protection isn't the default.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by emiliobumachar on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:11AM (#23857725)
It probably involves one or two humans reviewing anything suspicious.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Breza on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:18PM (#23878602)
Agreed, it could be as simple as someone at Twitter calling someone in the White House every time someone logs into the account. (The White House has a ton of staff, I met some of their IT people at a conference back in the day.)
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