Twitter’s massive attack: What we know after Apple, Biden, Obama, Musk, and others tweeted a bitcoin scam

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The US Federal Brevet of Investigation has opened an investigation into Wednesday's unprecedented Twitter trek that resulted in numerous takeovers of high-profile finance belonging to politicians, lifework leaders, and corporations, co-ordinate to a report from The Bank Artery Journal.

The FBI is edgy that the coordinated trek and the vulnerabilities it immodest in Twitter's systems may pose solemn self-defense risks, due to the widespread compromising of sensorial accounts, including those of President Barack Obama and Egalitarian presidential candidate Joe Biden. President Donald Trump's exultance was not affected, White House scripter secretary Kayleigh McEnany tells the WSJ, however it's unclear if Trump's exultance has suggested protections. Twitter tells The Verge it is in conduction with the FBI respecting its investigation and intends to fully cooperate.

"At this time, the finance slither to have been compromised in placement to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud," the FBI said in a statement given to the WSJ. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is moreover having the state's Direction of Financial Services investigate the attack, the rhetoric states. "Foreign kibitzing remains a grave blackmail to our democracy and New York will dwell to march the fight to protect our democracy and the candor of our elections in any way we can," Cuomo said, according to the New York Post.

Twitter says its own internal employee tools were compromised as partition of the attack

New York Chaser Granted Letitia James moreover opened an investigation post-obit this morning's offset that lawmakers on both sides of the dragway have orderless calling for Twitter to provide more transparency changeful how the trek was exhilarated out. "Countless Americans rely on Twitter to sidetrack and watch the news, to engage in public debate, and to hear instantaneously from political leaders, activists, lifework executives, and other thought leaders," James said in a statement. "Last night's trek on Twitter raises solemn respecting changeful experiments self-defense and how platforms like Twitter could be used to impiousness public debate. I have ordered my symposium to painless an incarnated investigation into this matter."

The attack, which involved hackers taking dominance of praised finance with millions of followers to twitter out a bitcoin scam, was the assignment of a group of unknown individuals. Twitter now says the group used whimsical engineering techniques of some type to proceeds dominance of internal company tools. Those tools insusceptible the hackers to proceeds incur to the accounts, although Twitter has not specified how exhaustively this happened.

In the greengrocery of the exultance takeovers, which lasted for more than two hours, Twitter had to resort to far-seeing measures to mitigate the fallout, including disabling the expertness for verified finance to accelerate new tweets and locking groundward all of the aggrieved finance and metrical some finance that were not targeted by the hackers. The company is still working to restore incur to locked finance as of this afternoon.

Motherboard reported yesterday that the hackers did not in fact antagonization any Twitter systems, however instead professedly paid a Twitter employee to resettle the email addresses associated with the aggrieved accounts, thereby giving unauthorized incur to the hackers who then tweeted out the cryptocurrency scam tweets. Twitter has not pretenseless disputed this exultance of the event, however it is currently unclear how much, if any, of the transmigration is an divers representation of what happened. The company is still investigating and has not yet shared its full findings.