


Through this access, the threat actors briefly gained control of high-profile accounts, including those owned by former President Barack Obama and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, to tweet out bitcoin scams.įollowing the attack, Twitter announced last September plans to roll out additional authentication measures both internally and for users, enhanced detection and monitoring capabilities, and new trainings and tools for employees. The post comes a little over a year after last summer’s Twitter hack, in which attackers used a social engineering attack that granted access to administrative systems and tools within the company. Twitter detailed its process for onboarding 100% of employee accounts with physical Yubico security keys in a blog post Wednesday.
