The two sources did not reveal more details about the company’s steps to appoint the new official for the social media giant.
In a statement, the FBI sector in San Francisco said that it is investigating a breach.Twitter“, While more lawmakers in Washington called for disclosure of how this happened.
The legal sector confirmed that the hackers committed frauds in which they obtained sums in digital currency, after they controlled the accounts of famous personalities, including the American presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian and the former American President Barack Obama Billionaire Elon Musk, founder of Tesla.
Other celebrities whose accounts have been affected include American rapper Kanye West, as well as Jeff Bezos, founder of “Amazon”, and businessman Warren Buffett, in addition to Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder, Uber and Apple accounts.
It is still not clear whether the hackers were able to see private messages sent by account holders, and if Twitter said it had no evidence that the attackers had access to passwords.
The company said in a statement that it continues to close accounts that changed passwords during the last month, but added: “We believe that only a small subset of these closed accounts has been compromised.”
Twitter declined to comment on the issue of seeking to recruit an Information Security Officer.
In a sign of the scale of concern raised by the breach between US lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans have shown a rare agreement that Twitter should explain more clearly how this breach occurred and what it is working to prevent such attacks in the future.
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The company “Twitter” without head of information security since last December.
The two sources did not reveal more details about the company’s steps to appoint the new official for the social media giant.
In a statement, the FBI sector in San Francisco said that it is investigating a breach.Twitter“, While more lawmakers in Washington called for disclosure of how this happened.
The legal sector confirmed that the hackers committed frauds in which they obtained sums in digital currency, after they controlled the accounts of famous personalities, including the American presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian and the former American President Barack Obama Billionaire Elon Musk, founder of Tesla.
Other celebrities whose accounts have been affected include American rapper Kanye West, as well as Jeff Bezos, founder of “Amazon”, and businessman Warren Buffett, in addition to Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder, Uber and Apple accounts.
It is still not clear whether the hackers were able to see private messages sent by account holders, and if Twitter said it had no evidence that the attackers had access to passwords.
The company said in a statement that it continues to close accounts that changed passwords during the last month, but added: “We believe that only a small subset of these closed accounts has been compromised.”
Twitter declined to comment on the issue of seeking to recruit an Information Security Officer.
In a sign of the scale of concern raised by the breach between US lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans have shown a rare agreement that Twitter should explain more clearly how this breach occurred and what it is working to prevent such attacks in the future.
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