Twitter faces hefty fine as 8 unverified account data stolen by hackers

Twitter accounts data hacked open as hackers steal data and twitter faces fine from FBI

AYUSH SINGH
Sciencenews18
1 min readJul 18, 2020

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Twitter is guilty of not maintaining digital security as Feds charge fine because of Big accounts hacked

Twitter recently faced a major security breach which resulted in a lot of scams in a very small amount of time along with data theft. However, it turns out that none of the big accounts were completely hacked so the data of people like Barrack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Bill Gates are probably safe. The message and other personal data theft all occurred in 8 unverified accounts.

Twitter released an official blog post that addresses all of these issues along with the biggest security lapse in the company’s history. This attack led to an open phase hold of some of the high profile accounts on Twitter. Hackers exploited the PR connects of these accounts for running Bitcoin scams.

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