A Coordinated Social Engineering Attack Hacks Twitter. Where has Privacy gone? Prefer Indian! Prefer Pixalive!
Social media platforms are always an upcoming and a trending thing in a human’s life. Among the top successful social media platforms hails Twitter.
Dated 15/07/2020 Twitter has faced a massive attack by coordinated social engineers who have hacked almost all the top tens of the society. Those scam content shared the same language. Cryptocurrency Scammers were said to be a group of 3 who have made nearly $118,000 with almost 363 transactions. This Scam would go down as the biggest heist on Twitter.
Twitter’s claim pictured that the hackers have targeted a few of their employees to aid a supporting hand to access the Twitter internal systems and the required tools. Twitter has locked down all the hacked accounts as its immediate response to the threat.
It is really a tough week for Twitter as the CEO of Twitter tweeted it. It is the most significant part of the threat that Twitter is facing. Since all the verified accounts were locked by Twitter to safeguard their accounts from further scams, the verified users have been in a push situation to retweet the unverified accounts to post something on their profiles. Making all the unverified account holder a hero in the current situation.
This hack has imposed a threat on the Privacy, Safety, and Data Security of the end-users. The hack has threatened the privacy situation of
President Trump’s account.
Here are the few top head’s accounts that have fallen prey to the Scam:
President Barack Obama
Kim Kardashian West
Warren Buffett
Jeff Bezos
Mike Bloomberg
Official Accounts of:
Uber
Apple
Safety and security are becoming the most significant question mark in this trending World. This situation had a kickstart with the ban of Chinese Social media. Now it has turned to most popular Twitter, which was once considered a secure and a hub for the World’s top trending people.
It’s time for the World to awake and be cautious of one’s own privacy and security. Opting for a local social media will be the right situation for the users. The data will be more secure and safe in such a case.
For Example, India has a homegrown social networking site called Pixalive, which is considered a social media hub as it has a plentiful of features. Go Local is best in such a situation, not only in the social media platforms, but in all the simple things we do.
