Reflecting on What Made the Twitter Hack Possible

Written by kunal | Published 2020/08/25
Tech Story Tags: twitter | twitter-hack | technology | latest-tech-stories | twitter-news | twitter-privacy | social-media | privacy

TLDR The Twitter hack has affected 130 accounts and stole $120,000 worth in BTC. Twitter’s investigation so far suggests the same kind of technique was used to trick the employee into giving away his access to Twitter's internal support tool. Social engineering techniques are techniques for psychological tricking of people to make them do certain actions or to give confidential information like passwords or PINs. We don’t yet know which technique(s) was used but here are some popular ones: phishing, water-hacking, Baiting, Water-holing and Water-Hacking.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/25