Hacker gained access to its internal systems Twitter and stole the identity of famous accounts.
Μamong those of the Democratic candidate for the presidential election Joe Biden, the former president of the USA Barack Obama, the billionaire Elon Musk, of the rapper Kanye West and the teleperson's wife Kim Kardashian, the tycoon investor Warren Buffett, the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos, the media mogul Mike Bloomberg, but also companies Uber and Apple.
We are investigating what other malicious activity they (the hackers) may have done or what information they may have accessed and will announce it here as soon as we know ,” the social networking site wrote in a series of tweets.
Η Twitter in fact, he made the unusual move of blocking the posting of messages for several hours, at least on some verified accounts, and said that he would restore this function only when he was sure of its security.
The company's announcements confirm the fears of security experts that the services themselves and not the users were exposed to danger.
However, according to Vice magazine, the pirates come from the company itself, according to APE-MPE, citing Reuters and AFP.
According to press reports, Justin Sun, the general manager of BitTorrent, even offers a reward of one million dollars to anyone who helps with information to bring the perpetrators to justice.
They asked for bitcoin - Transfers worth a total of 105.190 euros were made
The role of Twitter as an important communication platform for political candidates and public officials, including President Donald Trump, has raised fears that hackers could wreak havoc in the November 3 presidential election or jeopardize national security.
As Adam Conner, vice president of technology policy at the Center for American Progress, put it on Twitter: "This is bad on July 15, but it will definitely be worse on November 3».
Impersonating these celebrities and billionaires, the hackers asked their followers to send bitcoin money to a number of addresses. By yesterday afternoon, 400 bitcoin transfers had been made, with a total value of 105.190 euros. Half of the victims of the cyber attack had deposits in US bitcoin, a quarter in Europe and a quarter in Asia, according to Elliptic.
In his official account, for example, o Elon Mask appeared to offer a doubling of any Bitcoin payments sent to the address of his digital wallet "for the next half hour". «I feel generous because of the coronavirus»Add the tweet along with a link to a bitcoin address.
These transfers left a mark that could help investigators locate the perpetrators.
In the hours following the cyber attack, some of the platform's biggest users continued to try to regain control of their accounts.
In total, the accounts affected are tens of millions of users.
However, the blow to Twitter's reputation is probably more serious. More worrying for some is the time it took the company to stop these tweets.
As he told Reuters Nmitri Alperovich, co-founder of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, "seems to be the worst cyber-attack to date with a large social media platform».
«Twitter's reaction to the cyber attack was impressive. We are in the middle of the day in San Francisco and it took five hours to understand the incidentSaid the CEO of the security company Trail of Bits, Dan Guido.
«It is clear that the company is not doing enough to protect itselfAssessed from his side o Oren Falkovich, the former CEO of the company Area 1 Security.
After the attack μετοχές of the company fell 5% in Wall Street.
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