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They seem to be tiptoeing around without providing actual extent of the hack. They mentioned data exports being used for 8 non verified accounts, but haven't me
by actuator 6y ago
They seem to be tiptoeing around without providing actual extent of the hack. They mentioned data exports being used for 8 non verified accounts, but haven't mentioned "direct messages" as the thing that were not accessed for other accounts. Twitter tracks user engagement, so it should be possible for them to have this information either from logs/user analytics.
I would be very wary of using their product's DMs now. Considering most journalists use Twitter, I can only hope that no one had used DMs to contact a journalist about something which can put the source in jeopardy.
- chapium 6y agoThey don't want to say what happened. It sounds like the problem is negligence in security design and not just a few employees who were manipulated.
- actuator 6y agoYeah, I can understand why they wouldn't want to say much as something like your DMs were accessed will lead to a lot of bad press; but they can't really keep hiding behind that. The less they say, the more the people who are privacy/security conscious will doubt their product. I don't know how people use DMs on Twitter but if they are anywhere close to the general usage of Signal/WhatsApp/iMessage/Messenger etc. It is incredibly bad for them and something which can kill the platform unless they rethink that completely considering they don't even have E2E.