Twitter reveals that hackers also downloaded data from eight compromised accounts

Twitter explained is was victim of a”coordinated social engineering attack” against its employees who gave attackers the access to its internal tools.All the accounts were compromised simultaneously www.avg.com/activate and threat actors used them to promote a cryptocurrency scam. The attackers avg antivirus free posted messages urging the followers of the hacked accounts to send avg internet security money avg.com/retail     to a specific bitcoin wallet address Install Avg With License Number activation to receive back larger sums.

“Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time,” reads a messages posted from Bill Gates’ Twitter account said. “You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”

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Now Twitter provided an update on the www.avg.com/activate security incident confirming that attackers targeted certain Twitter employees through a social avg internet security engineering  avg antivirus free scheme.

The hackers targeted 130 accounts and were able to take control of 45 of them sending out some posts on behalf of the owners, and avg.com/retail     downloaded data from eight.

The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal Install Avg With License Number activation systems, including getting through our two-factor protections. As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts.” reads the avg internet security update provide by twitter “For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets.

Below the info provided by Twitter for the 130 accounts that were targeted by the hackers:

• Hackers did not view previous account passwords, as those are not stored in plain text or available through the tools used in the attack.
• Hackers only accessed personal information associated avg antivirus free with compromised accounts, www.avg.com/activate including email addresses avg internet security and phone numbers. This data is available to some users of Twitter’s internal support tools.
• In cases where an account was taken over avg.com/retail     by the attacker, they may have been able to view additional information.

For up to eight of the Twitter accounts targeted by the hackers, the intruders also downloaded the account’s information through the Twitter’s Your twitter data tool.

“For up to eight of the Twitter accounts www.avg.com/activate involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account’s avg internet security information through  our avg antivirus free  Your twitter data tool.” continues the update .

“This is a tool that is meant to provide an account owner with a summary of their Twitter account details and activity. We are reaching out directly to any account owner where we know this to be true. None of the eight Install Avg With License Number activation were verified accounts.”

Twitter pointed out that its incident response team immediately acted once discovered the hack, it secured and revoked access avg.com/retail     to internal systems  avg antivirus free to lock out the attackers. The company decided to avg internet security share online only a few details on its remediation procedure to protect its effectiveness. Twitter plans to provide more technical details about the remediation procedure, in the future.

The social media network is continuing to investigate this incident along with law enforcement.

This week the New York Times Published www.avg.com/activate a report that revealed that hackers breached employee a Twitter’s internal Slack messaging avg.com/retail     channel  avg antivirus free where they found credentials for the backend systems of the social  avg internet security network.

A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URLs could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks.

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