Twitter has offered its initial analysis of the Wednesday mass hijacking of prominent twits' accounts – and suggested it all kicked off after its staff fell for social engineering.
Judging from leaked screenshots of Twitter's internal systems circulating online and seen by El Reg, it appears one or more miscreants were able to gain direct or indirect access to an administration panel used by Twitter employees to configure accounts, by tricking or coercing the social network's staff.
From there, the intruders were, at least in some cases, seemingly able to change the registered email addresses of celebrities and politicians' accounts – think Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and so on – to an inbox they controlled, requested password resets, and logged in to tweet Bitcoin scams to millions of followers. The miscreants may have been able t ..
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