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#Twitter account hacker password#

It added, over the weekend it was working to unlock and restore those effected accounts.

Our forensic investigation of these activities is still ongoing.

In cases where an account was taken over by the attacker, they may have been able to view additional information.

Attackers were able to view personal information including email addresses and phone numbers, which are displayed to some users of our internal support tools.

Attackers were not able to view previous account passwords, as those are not stored in plain text or available through the tools used in the attack.

In a summary of what was accessed Twitter wrote:

However, for the “vast majority” of compromised accounts the unknown adversaries were unable to access private account information, according to Twitter.

#Twitter account hacker password#

“For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets.”Īttackers accessed the Twitter account feature “ Your Twitter Data” for eight accounts. As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts,” Twitter wrote. “The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections. Those targets were manipulated to perform “certain actions” and divulge confidential information. It stated that the company was hit with a social engineering “scheme” targeting a small number of employees. On Saturday, Twitter posted a 900-word summary of the attack outlining what it knows. Beyond that, a raft of sources are offering bits and pieces of the puzzle – some verified, some not. The tip-off? Suddenly these high-profile accounts were all tweeting out identical links to a cryptocurrency scam.īut what exactly happened? As Threatpost reported on Wednesday, Twitter’s internal investigation is ongoing, but the social-media giant did say that hackers had somehow compromised the company’s internal systems and secured employee privileges. Earlier this week, Twitter locked down thousands of verified accounts, including the accounts of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple, Uber and others, after it became clear that hackers had been able to compromise them.