The investigation is still ongoing in the recent Twitter hacking case that affected many celebrity accounts on the Twitter platform, through which hackers were able to achieve 120 thousand dollars in bitcoin sent by the victims who trusted the tweet, hoping to get double the amount they sent so that the sent amount disappears With the amount you have been waiting for…

After this incident, Twitter fortified its security system and prevented tweeting with the title of cryptocurrencies:

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According to Twitter’s latest report, hackers have downloaded private and personal information related to the accounts of 8 individuals affected by the hack, and Twitter did not mention the identity of these people.

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For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the extra step of downloading account information through the Your Twitter Data tool. We communicate directly with any account holder where we know this is true.

– Twitter Support (TwitterSupport) July 18, 2020

According to the same report, the hackers used the “Your Twitter Data” feature, which allows users to download the entire Twitter archive, including tweets, direct messages, and possibly even deleted messages.

Twitter revealed that 130 accounts were hacked in total.

In 45 of these accounts, the attackers were able to initiate and log in to the password reset and send tweets unrelated to the account holder.

The Twitter report confirmed that the hacker was unable to see previous passwords, but they were able to look at the personal information of the hacked accounts, including email addresses, phone numbers and geographical location.

How the attackers took control of Twitter?

As for how the hacker entered this level of access to users’ personal accounts, Twitter confirmed that employees had inadvertently provided access to users’ personal accounts, but they did not provide additional details about that.

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It was stated on the Twitter blog that:

The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to gain access to Twitter’s internal systems, including bypassing two-way protections.

To publish a more detailed report from the newspaper The New York Times Which provides more details about the incident, and the report claims that the hacker was a group of young people in their late teens and early twenties.

through a dialogue Conducted by The Times with Twitter hackers, these hackers explained that they infiltrated Twitter’s servers through information left on the “Slack” program of the internal Twitter channel, and through this they were granted access to sensitive data.

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The Times reported that Twitter’s internal investigators have confirmed the hacker’s story, noting that the information the investigators have obtained is consistent with what these hackers have stated.

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