Twitter through its security page confirmed that around 130 accounts were targeted in high-profile hack.
Twitter on Friday shared details about the platform’s ongoing investigation of the Wednesday incident that left tens of high-profile accounts compromised. Twitter said that a total of 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers. Twitter said that it will continue working with the impacted account owners over the next several days. It further said that it will continue to assess whether non-public data related to these accounts was compromised.
“Based on what we know right now, we believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident. For a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts,” Twitter’s security page read.
Twitter through its support page noted:
–The accounts which have been locked may or may not be necessarily hacked or compromised.
