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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by zelly on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:27AM (#23856077)
Weren't there cases of foreign spies discovered in Twitter ranks, or was that some other company?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by MandieD on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:58AM (#23857084)
Yes, it was Twitter, and and the spies were working on behalf of Saudi Arabia: <a href=“https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit... Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics</a>
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by blaser-waffle on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:50AM (#23858951)
It was twitter. But that's largely moot -- there are almost certainly spy-espionage types in a lot of large tech companies. Mostly for siphoning off tech secrets, but I'm sure having someone with root access to some $SYSTEM is useful for political purposes too.
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