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Twitter says a “phone spear phishing” attack helped hackers – what’s that?


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July 31, 2020  By Graham Cluley 

 

Twitter says a "phone spear phishing" attack helped hackers - what's that?

Twitter has released some more information about the hack it suffered earlier this month that saw high profile accounts breached, and hijacked to post a cryptocurrency scams.

Victims of the attack, which was perpetrated by hackers with access to Twitter’s internal account management support tools, included Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Kanye West.

 

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