A week ago, the hackers involved in the Twitter attack could have read DMs of up to thirty-six accounts, including CoinDesk's. CoinDesk was notified that its account was among the 36. As of today, the CoinDesk account has not been retrieved yet.
A complete review was publicized late on Wednesday by Twitter on the hundred and thirty accounts seized by the cyber-hackers with numerous reports with the blue tick used in the crypto fraud.
Multiple questions keep running through the minds of people who use the platform; for instance, did the hackers have access to their personal information? We believe they did not, as stated in the update, announced on Wednesday for most users.
The hackers had access to mobile numbers, email addresses, and maybe some other information, but they could not view passwords.
It has not been indicated that no previous or present government official had their direct messages read to date. Just to mention a few, the previous president of the United States and the former vice president had their accounts hijacked.
The attack which was initially aimed at cryptocurrency exchange, and startups spread like wildfire to other verified accounts. The platform, in its record of fourteen years, experienced one of its major attacks ever.
Sensitive information of 8 unverified users and verified accounts like CoinDesk were downloaded.
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars in Bitcoin was what the hackers stole from the attack, and since then, it has been going from one private wallet and mixers to the other.
Investigations are ongoing by the FBI and several companies, and the federal lawmakers are interrogating the app's security operators.
Source: Coindesk
