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So it was a social engineering attack against employees with high level access. This sentence still doesn’t make sense to me: “ Once we became aware of the inc
by jc_811 6y ago
So it was a social engineering attack against employees with high level access. This sentence still doesn’t make sense to me:
“ Once we became aware of the incident, we immediately locked down the affected accounts and removed Tweets posted by the attackers.”
The accounts were posting for hours after it seemed Twitter became aware what was going on.
- minimaxir 6y ago> The accounts were posting for hours after it seemed Twitter became aware what was going on. Oddly, it was just Elon Musk's account that had multiple tweets over a long period of time. The other accounts did just one.
- minxomat 6y agoNo, many accounts, including Kanye continued to post follow-up comments with the same content as other accounts.
- ethanwillis 6y agoThe tweets are still live as of right now with JS disabled. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23855452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23855452
- oaiey 6y agoAccounts of the employees. There was a statements somewhere else, that this might be close to the token system. Token have a validity which expires in hours. All assumptions on my behalf bit it explains your question.