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On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
In case 2020 wasn’t dystopian enough, hackers on July 15 hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian ...
Last month, Twitter experienced one of the largest and strangest hacks in the company's history. Over the course of nearly three hours, about 130 high-profile Twitter accounts—including Joe ...
The Twitter hack began on June 14 when Sheppard and Fazeli assisted Clark in manipulating employees through social engineering. [6] This involved calling multiple Twitter employees and posing as the help desk in Twitter's IT department responding to a reported problem with Twitter's internal VPN .
This is a partial, alphabetical list of actual victims whose confidential information was reportedly targeted or actually acquired, in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal. [1] [2] Dates in parentheses, when included, indicate the approximate time frame during which information was acquired. The reference citations, in many ...
Graham Clark, 17, was the "mastermind" of the mid-July attack that targeted the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and others, authorities said.
From December 2012 to January 2014, [Lazăr] hacked into the email and social media accounts of high-profile victims, including a family member of two former U.S. presidents, a former U.S. Cabinet member, a former member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former presidential advisor. After gaining unauthorized access to their email and ...
Authorities say a British man and two people from Florida were behind the Twitter hack earlier this month. Authorities identified them as 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark and 22-year-old Nima Fazeli ...