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Re:Twitter: Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s wh... by dang on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:41AM (#23856145)
This thread and the one about the Vice article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23853786 are close enough that I guess we should merge them.

The main thread about the hack is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275.

Re:Twitter: Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s wh... by koheripbal on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:16AM (#23858195)
Neither has any meaningful details on the penetration itself...

> We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.

...this could mean anything. Seems like they simply want to portray themselves as the victims, even though it's very possible one of their own employees was involved.