The New York Department of Financial Services presented a report on the results of investigation of a Twitter hack that took place in July this year. According to the report, it took cybercriminals 24 hours to complete the hack. As the investigation established, the attack began on July 14 and …
Read More »Another 16-year-old teenager was involved in the largest Twitter hack
The New York Times reports that one more suspect has emerged in the Twitter hack – another 16-year-old teenager could be involved in the attack. Let me remind you that in mid-June 2020, Twitter was subjected to the largest attack in its entire history. Then, many accounts of public people, …
Read More »Twitter Hacking Hearing Held At Zoom And Interrupted By Porn Videos
Yesterday, the court considered a possible release on bail for 17-year-old Florida resident Graham Ivan Clark, who is accused of the recent attack on Twitter, which became the largest in the company’s history. Hearings of the Twitter hacking took place online and was interrupted by porn videos. Due to the …
Read More »Game over: 17-year-old teenager accused in Twitter hacking
American law enforcement officers organized a press conference, at which they announced the arrest of the main “ideological mastermind” of the Twitter hack. A 17-year-old Florida teenager Graham Ivan Clark, apparently known online under the pseudonym Kirk, is accused of hacking Twitter. A joint investigation by the FBI, the IRS, …
Read More »Twitter hackers used targeted phone phishing
Twitter officials continue to post new findings from an investigation of a massive attack earlier this month. Now the company’s engineers said that the hackers used targeted phone phishing to break into Twitter. Let me remind you that the break was the largest in the history of the social network. …
Read More »Hackers stole private messages from 36 Twitter accounts
Twitter representatives continue to publish new data from the investigation of the massive attack that took place last week. The researchers report that hackers have stolen private messages from 36 Twitter accounts. Let me remind you that as a result of the attack, were compromised accounts of many public people …
Read More »Twitter Hack Could Bring Criminals More Money If Coinbase Did not Block Transactions
Twitter suffered a huge attack last week. The IT community was shocked and bewildered by how “unimpressive” was criminals’ income from the loudest attack on social networks in history. It turned out that the Twitter hack could have brought criminals more money if Coinbase Did not Block Transactions. During the …
Read More »The biggest attack in the history of Twitter: hacked accounts of stars, companies and cryptocurrency exchanges
The night of July 15-16 was quite difficult for Twitter, as happened the biggest attack in the history of the company. Many accounts of public people, companies, cryptocurrency exchanges and so on were subjected to mass compromise. So, among the victims were: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, …
Read More »Twitter blocked DDoSecrets account
At the beginning of this week, a group of DDoSecrets activists (Distributed Denial of Secrets), describing itself as a “champion of transparency” published 269 GB of data publicly owned by law enforcement agencies and data centers in the United States. It has now become known that Twitter has blocked the …
Read More »Third-party SDKs secretly collected data from Twitter and Facebook users
This week it became known that due to the use of third-party SDKs, the data of Twitter and Facebook users leaked to the side (of course, without any knowledge). SDK (software development kit) is a set of developmental tools that allows software specialists to create applications for a specific software …
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