Twitter did not comment on a report by Motherboard that included a picture of its internal tools, and mentioned confidential sources in the SIM swapping community that said an expert did the work for them. TechCrunch reports that a hacker called “Kirk” called forum posters on OGUsers, a website frequented by people who sell popular social media manages, stating he needed help selling taken vanity usernames. Their source indicated that it was not likely a Twitter worker was involved, however one way or another, “Kirk” had access to internal tools and carried on to carrying out account takeovers later in the day.
Twitter likewise stated that its investigating “what other malicious activity they might have conducted or information they might have accessed.” Based on the hackers ability to entirely take over accounts, and the variety of accounts they accessed, theres speculation that they might have burglarized essentially anybodys account to see information stored as drafts or direct messages. Well continue to upgrade this post as we learn more about what took place.
Twitter claims social engineering attack led to crypto scam tweets
