Some takeaways from the Twitter hack that affected Barack Obama, Warren Buffett and Elon Musk: ‘'f it can happen to them, taking really high profile people, who, you assume might be more concerned about their security, it can certainly occur to anyone.'
A Wednesday cyber attack briefly had high-profile Twitter TWTR, +1.03% accounts beseeching followers to make cryptocurrency donations.
“ ‘If it can happen to them, taking really high profile people, who, you assume might be more concerned about their security, it can certainly occur to anyone.’ ” Twitter said it “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.”
The damage might not be confined to Twitter, according to Kevin Campbell, CEO of Syniti, a Boston-based data solutions provider that’s worked with airlines, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers on managing and protecting information. On Thursday afternoon, Twitter said it had “no evidence that attackers accessed passwords” and didn’t think a password re-set was necessary. Still, it’s locked any accounts that attempted a password change in the past 30 days. A currently-locked account wasn’t necessarily compromised, Twitter noted.
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