“We detected a coordinated attack by people who chose a number of our employees who had access to internal systems and tools as the target,” the report said.
They noted that they immediately blocked these accounts and deleted tweets sent by cybercriminals.
In addition, the company has limited the functionality of many other accounts.
We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.
- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020In turn, the head of Twitter Jack Dorsey said that the company will provide information when it has a full understanding of what happened.
“It's a tough day for us on Twitter. We all feel terrible that this happened. We diagnose (problem. - RT ) and share with you everything we can when we have more understanding of what exactly happened, ”Dorsey wrote on Twitter.
Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.
We're diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.
💙 to our teammates working hard to make this right.
Previously unknown persons hacked Twitter accounts of American celebrities, politicians and businessmen, including Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
The same type of messages appeared on their pages with an offer to earn bitcoins.