An Ontario municipality has become the latest to lose temporary access to its X account. Peterborough, Ont., a city of 83,600 about 125km northeast of Toronto, says someone took over and renamed its X/Twitter account on Sunday and held control for about 24 hours. Re-named [at]JupiterExchange, the new controller then began tweeting links to a
An Ontario municipality has become the latest to lose temporary access to its X account.
Peterborough, Ont., a city of 83,600 about 125km northeast of Toronto, says someone took over and renamed its X/Twitter account on Sunday and held control for about 24 hours.
Re-named [at]JupiterExchange, the new controller then began tweeting links to a cryptocurrency scam until this morning, when the city was able to regain access.
Brendan Wedley, the city’s director of strategic communications and service, told IT World Canada that the municipality is looking into how the account was hacked. Three to five people had password access, he said.
The attacker only used their X access to play with the account. The has been no suspicious activity detected on the city’s IT network, Wedley said.
