We believe that for up to 36 of the 130 targeted accounts, the attackers accessed the DM inbox, including 1 elected official in the Netherlands. To date, we have no indication that any other former or current elected official had their DMs accessed.
E2EE for DMs is overdue. 2019: Saudi agents at Twitter got caught spying on 1000s of users 2020: Twitter employees got socially engineered, leading to this hack If Biden's DMs weren't hit, we avoided a Podesta moment by DUMB LUCK. Insider threat is why other tech cos. use E2EE. h…
Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders confirms Twitter has told him that DMs were sent from his hacked account, and that he has concerns for the safety of some of those who messaged him https://www.bbc.co.uk/...