"Twitter Says Hackers Got Access to Internal Tools for Hijacking Spree"

Twitter recently faced an attack that led to the compromise of accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and other prominent users to promote a bitcoin scam. Michael Borohovski, director of software at the security firm Synopsys, suspects that the Twitter application's back end or service layer was hacked, given the number of compromised high-profile accounts that would likely have strong passwords and multifactor authentication enabled. Twitter believes the hack was the result of a coordinated social engineering attack in which some of their employees were tricked into giving attackers access to internal systems and tools. This article continues to discuss the Twitter hacking incident, the social engineering attack that led to the incident, and how attacks on Twitter's internal systems poses a threat to all users' data privacy and security.

CNET reports "Twitter Says Hackers Got Access to Internal Tools for Hijacking Spree"