In its first detailed statements since someone took over a number of high profile accounts Wednesday afternoon, Twitter posted a thread explaining “what we know so far.” While rumors have swirled about what may have caused a compromise that gave hackers access to Twitter accounts for Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Apple, Kanye West and others, the company stated “We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”

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Twitter also said that it’s investigating “what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed.” Based on the hackers ability to completely take over accounts, and the number of accounts they accessed, there’s speculation that they could have broken into virtually anyone’s account to see information stored as drafts or direct messages. We’ll continue to update this post as we learn more about what happened.

social engineering attack

Tell me about it. I've stopped wearing my ID when doing insurance inspections and just keep it in my car. Nobody ever bothers to ask for it, even when the front desk hasn't been made aware of my visit. The number of times I've been allowed into server rooms, boiler rooms, and restricted areas with no questions asked is concerning. I was given free reign to wander around a decommissioned nuclear missile silo once without anyone accompanying me, and a hydroelectric power station, wastewater treatment plant.... Usually it's the daycare centers that are on top of their shit, more than anyone else.

I got a call from my supervisor later that day asking if it was me.

Bognor Regis