Twitter pins its July 15th breach on a phone spear phishing attack

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Twitter pins its July 15th breach on a phone spear phishing attack

Twitter pins its July 15th breach on a phone spear phishing attack

engadget

Published 31 Jul 2020

Two weeks after a massive breach saw hackers take over some of the most prominent accounts on Twitter — including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and Bill Gates — the company has published more details about how it happened. While a number of peop...

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