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How did they manipulate their employees? that's the most important part don't you think?
So the photos going around showing they have detrending tools might be real? Is it ethically acceptable that they “curate” what is trending? (Edit: I was actually asking, but apparently got my answer) Edit: I didn’t believe it when I saw people claiming those pictures were being deleted when posted by to twitter, but verge confirms they’re real. Trends blacklist and search blacklist. Didn’t Jack testify to Congress t…
I haven’t seen this, do you have a link?
You have one of the best usernames ever btw.
I don't subscribe to the "nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide", I had conversations that are not illegal, lewd or even non-politically correct jokes, but would still hate to made public by a 3rd entity; from secrets that were shared by friends, to sensitive data like addresses, or information with clients with NDAs.
> For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets How did they initiate a password reset and successfully reset the password to login to the account? They must've had the owners' email passwords too? EDIT: So they changed the mail associated to the accounts to their own... but the system didnt email out to "old" email to notify them of the action b…
Fitting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLXW2JQ0TZk
Training to prevent these social engineering leaks is definitely critical.
>For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account’s information through our “Your Twitter Data” tool. Yikes. Pretty much a confirmation of the speculation that the hackers would have access to Twitter DMs. Question is, which accounts? edit: For reference, here's what's included in the "Your Twitter Data" tool [0]. There's some other info that may be o…
> There is a lot speculation about the identity of these 8 accounts. We will only disclose this to the impacted accounts, however to address some of the speculation: none of the eight were Verified accounts.[0] [0]: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128433914877449830...
That just raises more questions for me! It would make sense if an attacker was trying to pull the data of some celebs/VIPs as an attempt to hopefully strike gold. But for them to do it on some non-verified account? That makes it seem like these specific individuals may have been targeted. If the attackers were just randomly picking accounts to download, I can't imagine them picking solely non-verifieds.
How did they manipulate their employees? that's the most important part don't you think?
> We became aware of the attackers’ action on Wednesday
No mention of how they detected the incident or what alerted them to the attackers' action?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There is a lot speculation about the identity of these 8 accounts. We will only disclose this to the impacted accounts, however to address some of the speculation: none of the eight were Verified accounts.[0] [0]: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128433914877449830...
>none of the eight were Verified accounts. That just raises more questions for me! It would make sense if an attacker was trying to pull the data of some celebs/VIPs as an attempt to hopefully strike gold. But for them to do it on some non-verified account? That makes it seem like these specific individuals may have been targeted. If the attackers were just randomly picking accounts to download, I can't imagine them…