As you have probably heard by now, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account (@jack, 4.2 million followers) started spewing some tweets on Friday night that were out of character even for him.
For about 15 minutes the account tweeted racist and offensive remarks, and even at one point what appeared to be a bomb threat.
It was pretty obvious that these weren’t messages being genuinely tweeted by Twitter’s oddball co-founder, and theories spread like wildfire that his account had been hacked.
I joined in with the speculation late on Friday night, proposing possible explanations such as a lack of two-factor authentication, or a reused password, but leaning more towards a third-party app connected to the Twitter boss’s account having been hijacked.
Four years ago Twitter’s CFO has his account breached. He wasn’t using 2FA. https://t.co/BAszeVjHJ5 I find it hard to think Twitter’s security team would let @jack make the same mistake. My hunch would be third party app compromised, but we will see.
— Graham Cluley (@gcluley) August 30, 2019
I couldn’t see the funny side in Jack Dorsey’s misfortune, having myself suffered when a third-party a ..
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