Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts

Posted by longdefeat on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:03PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/twitter-admits-hackers-accessed-dms-of-dozens-of-high-profile-accounts/

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Re:Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-pro... by 0xy on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:17PM (#23923268)

Almost definitely Geert Wilders being the elected official who had his DMs pilfered. He was definitely hacked at the time. [1]

[1] https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/07/twitter-account-of-gee...

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Re:Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-pro... by devcouvert on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:50AM (#23924499)

The Geert Wilders case seems unrelated to the "big" Twitter hack. Might have been regular phishing/SIM swap.

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Re:Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-pro... by untog on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:51PM (#23923726)

I suspect for a lot of people this will be of next to no consequence: I can't imagine Bill Gates has actually done all that much chatting in the DMs. But some might have. Elon Musk, perhaps?

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