Source: Dubai – Arabic.net
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still Twitter Company Achieving the secrets of what was called the Black Day or “Black Wednesday” when the process of piracy targeted dozens of famous accounts, raising thousands of questions about the criteria for saving users’ data followed by the famous Twitter site.
In a new investigation, “Blue Bird,” Twitter announced Thursday that the hacking operation, which had targeted 136 accounts of known personalities on the platform, may have access to some private messages from 36 accounts, including an elected official in the Netherlands.
To recap:
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????45 accounts had Tweets sent by attackers
????36 accounts had the DM inbox accessed
????8 accounts had an archive of “Your Twitter Data” downloaded, none of these are Verified— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 23, 2020
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The company stated in a post on the platform’s support account on Twitter that it had not found any evidence or data indicating the ability to access the messages of other elected officials.
It also indicated that the “hackers” were able to obtain emails and phone numbers for some of the compromised accounts.
Celebrities and Bitcoin!
Official accounts belonging to a number of prominent figures in the United States, such as Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and major American companies such as Apple and Uber, were subjected to a huge piracy operation, last Wednesday afternoon (15 July), during which pirates managed to publish Announcements calling on the followers of these accounts to send money in digital Bitcoin with a promise to double it.
And he gave some of these fake tweets, which the owners of the targeted accounts of the piracy operation had deleted, each follower in a timely manner 30 minutes, to send to a specific address an amount of bitcoin currency in order to receive twice that amount.
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