Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts

Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts

  • After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.
  • On Wednesday, a spike of high profile accounts including those of Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Uber, and Apple tweeted cryptocurrency scams in an apparent hack.
  • “We used a rep that literally done all the work for us,” one of the sources said.

– Joseph Cox | July 15, 2020