>Whose private DMs would have as much impact as campaign emails did, and aren’t verified though? That’s the thing that raises so many questions for me - they only exfiltrated the data on accounts that aren’t verified.
Verified doesn't necessarily mean important people, but rather public personality/official account. There could be hundreds of lobbyists, journalists, etc. that don't use verified accounts.
On Trump, apparently he has more internal protections on his account than normal so it could just be that the employees they got in through didn’t have any access. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/technology/twitter-hack-i...