UPDATE ON TWITTER HACK According to numerous reports, all "blue checked" Twitter accounts cannot tweet now. Shares of Twitter fell 3 percent in after-hours trading.— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 15, 2020
Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far:— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020
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, 2020
We know they used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf. We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020