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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 ...
Graham Clark, 17, was the "mastermind" of the mid-July attack that targeted the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and others, authorities said. Florida teen charged in massive Twitter hack ...
On July 31, 2020, Clark was arrested at his home in Northdale, Florida. He faced 30 criminal charges, including 17 counts of communication fraud, 11 counts of fraudulent use of personal information, one count of organized fraud for more than $5,000, and one count of accessing a computer or electronic device without authority. His bail was set ...
2020 On July 15, 2020, Twitter suffered a breach that combined elements of social engineering and phishing. A 17-year-old hacker and accomplices set up a fake website resembling Twitter's internal VPN provider used by remote working employees.
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 ...
Zatko was hired by Jack Dorsey – Twitter's CEO – in November 2020 to lead the company's information security approach, after a July 2020 hack that compromised multiple high-profile accounts. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] He was terminated by the company in January 2022, [ 36 ] with Twitter claiming it was after "an assessment of how the organization was ...
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 and ...