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Hackers had accessed Twitter's internal systems to hijack some
of the platform's top voices including U.S. presidential
candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U.S.
President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them
to solicit digital currency.
In its latest statement, Twitter said that the hackers were able
to gain control to a "small subset" of the targeted accounts,
and send tweets from them. (https://bit.ly/2WnfPF5)
The company added that it was continuing to assess whether the
attackers were able to access private data of the targeted
accounts.
The high-profile accounts that were hacked also included rapper
Kanye West, Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos, investor Warren
Buffett, Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, and the corporate
accounts for Uber Technologies Inc and Apple Inc.
Twitter reiterated that it was working with impacted account
owners.
The FBI's San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the
hacking, with many Washington lawmakers also calling for an
accounting of how it happened.
The law enforcement agency said that cyber attackers committed
cryptocurrency fraud in the incident. Publicly available
blockchain records show the apparent scammers received more than
$100,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
"We're still in the process of assessing longer-term steps that
we may take and will share more details as soon as we can,"
Twitter added in its statement.
(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh
Kuber)
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