Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach

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Twitter Inc , whose internal systems were breached about two weeks ago, said on Thursday the incident targeted a small number of employees through a phone 'spear-phishing' attack.

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The U.S. microblogging site said the hackers targeted about 130 accounts, tweeted from 45, accessed inbox of 36, and were able to download Twitter data from seven.hereHackers had accessed Twitter’s internal systems on July 15 to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital currency.

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Many companies provide training on how to avoid this and one would expect Twitter to do that as well. Mistakes can happen, but more details are important, this will help companies better train their employees in case the hackers used some new strategy/ method.

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