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My bet is that some Tweet posting API is missing a critical authentication check or the hackers found a way to bypass this check. I doubt someone could individ
by cryptica 6y ago
My bet is that some Tweet posting API is missing a critical authentication check or the hackers found a way to bypass this check.
I doubt someone could individually hack all these accounts.
- andy_ppp 6y agoI mean why can they not stop the api? Why not just switch it off for a few minutes and figure out what is happening?
- cryptica 6y agoThey would need time to figure out which API endpoint is affected. Twitter is not going to shut down everything just because one endpoint has a possible issue.