Jack Patrick Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, said that “it was a tough day for us” after the massive cyberattack suffered by the social network
The technological entrepreneur Jack Patrick Dorsey He recognized that this was a “hard day for us in Twitter“, After the massive cyber attack that the social network suffered this Wednesday.
We are diagnosing and sharing as much as we can as soon as we have a better understanding of what exactly happened, ”wrote the co-founder and CEO of the social network.
Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.
We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.
???? to our teammates working hard to make this right.
– jack (@jack) July 16, 2020
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This Wednesday, the social network Twitter suffered a cyber attack without precedents which consisted of taking control of the accounts of personalities, politicians and companies to spread a fraud related to bitcoins.
Among the affected accounts were found Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Whiz Khalifa, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg and Warren Buffett.
In numerous messages spread by those accounts, the people behind this hack asked users to deposit $ 10,000 in bitcoins, promising that twice as much would be returned.
Through a statement, the social network explained that it detected “what we believe to be an attack by social engineering coordinated by people who successfully addressed some of our employees with access to our systems and tools“.
We detected what we believe to be a social engineering attack coordinated by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to our systems and tools.
— Twitter Latin America (@TwitterLatAm) July 16, 2020
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Cybercriminals used this access to control “several highly visible accounts” and make publications from them. “We are investigating what other malicious activity they were able to carry out or what information they have accessed,” they reported.
Twitter noted that upon realizing the incident, the affected accounts were immediately blocked and the tweets posted by the attackers were removed.
When we became aware of the incident, we immediately blocked the affected accounts and removed the Tweets posted by the attackers.
— Twitter Latin America (@TwitterLatAm) July 16, 2020
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The functionality was also limited to a much larger group of accounts, such as all verified accounts, while doing a thorough investigation.
This was detrimental, although it was also an important step to reduce risk, “acknowledged the platform.
