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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. [7] 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 .
June: Over 1,000 accounts on multiplayer online game Roblox were hacked to display that they supported U.S. President Donald Trump. [148] July: The 2020 Twitter bitcoin scam occurred. July: User credentials of writing website Wattpad were stolen and leaked on a hacker forum. The database contained over 200 million records. [149]
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The accounts and passwords are traded on hacker forums, with prices ranging anywhere from $82. ... because cyber-criminals are selling hacked Twitter accounts and passwords online for up to $1,000 ...
Recently revealed breaches into MySpace and LinkedIn have been followed by someone allegedly selling 32 million leaked Twitter accounts on the dark web. But Twitter spokespeople and the company's ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
The British Army has confirmed a “breach” of its Twitter and YouTube accounts. An investigation is under way after both official sites appeared to have been hacked.