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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.
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 .
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 ...
A Florida teen has been arrested and accused of being the “mastermind” behind Twitter’s recent security and privacy breach. 17-year-old Graham Clark of Tampa, Florida is said to have posed ...
Asserting that governments can know the true names of those using Twitter anonymously, he brought up "technical methods" for tracing a person's IP addresses, as well as a "secret I'm not going to reveal." [4] [5] Twitter permanently banned al-Qahtani's account in September 2019, claiming "violations of our platform manipulation policies." [6]
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 ...
Hacking Paris Hilton's cell phone, accessing LexisNexis, and defacing Burger King's Twitter account Cameron LaCroix , aka camo , cam0 , camZero , cmuNNY , is an American computer hacker best known for the hacking of Paris Hilton 's cellular phone, [ 2 ] accessing LexisNexis , and defacing Burger King's Twitter account. [ 3 ]