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tweets from its support account and an updated blog post,
Twitter said it had no indication that the private messages of
any other elected officials were obtained.
Twitter previously said the attackers tweeted from 45 "verified"
accounts, including those belonging to such well-known names as
CEOs Elon Musk and Bill Gates and former Vice President Joe
Biden.
Asked by Reuters if the 36 accounts where messages might have
been read included any verified accounts, Twitter said it would
not answer.
In general, someone with the ability to tweet from an account
would also be able to read previously sent or received messages
that had not been deleted.
That would make it likely that some of the most famous people in
the world had private messages read by hackers still at large.
The FBI is investigating the case from its San Francisco office.
Twitter previously said that the attackers downloaded mass data
from eight accounts, none of them the verified accounts with
blue checks that include famous people, officials and some in
the media.
The downloading tool does not provide access to Twitter
messages, a spokeswoman said.
For accounts they won access to, the company said the hackers
would have been able to see phone numbers and email addresses
but not previous passwords.
(Reporting by Joseph Menn in San Francisco; Editing by Richard
Pullin)
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