If you’ve ever been hacked, this will ring a bell!
The infamous hack that sent bogus tweets from commandeered Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities, and technology moguls, scammed people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, has been traced to a Florida teen.
The tweets offered to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to an anonymous Bitcoin address. The hack alarmed security experts because of the grave potential of such an intrusion for creating geopolitical mayhem with disinformation.
Twitter has said the hacker gained access to a company dashboard that manages accounts by using social engineering and spear-phishing smartphones to obtain credentials from “a small number” of Twitter employees “to gain access to our internal systems.” Spear-phishing uses email or other messaging to deceive people into sharing access credentials.
Read the complete article: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/twitter-says-hackers-used-phone-to-fool-staff-gain-access/2270731/
