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The high-profile cryptocurrency scam that took place last week highlighted the broader vulnerabilities of Twitter’s infrastructure as new major points continue to emerge. Now, a new Reuters report shows what possibly would have caused the collapse of social network security: more than 1,000 more people in the company had the ability to bills everyone.
Reuters says these employees, which also include hires from third-party contractors such as Cognizant, have access to internal tools that potentially allows them to switch sensitive user settings. More importantly, they have the option to hand this access to anyone else by sharing their credentials — which is what reportedly led to the hack last week as per a few outlets.
In response, Twitter told Digital Trends that it’s “always working on increased security protocols, techniques, and mechanisms generally and for anyone with access to account support tools.”
A social media spokesperson added that each team member is only presented with access to the account “with a valid business reason” and “when they have to talk about visitor issues, they are organized.” The company says there is no indication that any of its external partners running in the visitor service and account control played a role in piracy.
Twitter, over the next week, shared a number of unexpected effects from its ongoing investigation that it is achieving alongside the FBI. In a tweet, he said the attackers had attacked a total of 130 accounts, 8 of which had their full Twitter data compromised through the knowledge export tool. However, Twitter claims that none of them have a verified account. The hackers also accessed direct messages from 36 of those profiles, adding an elected official from the Netherlands.
“We have also taken competitive steps to protect our systems while our investigations are ongoing. We’re still comparing the longer-term moves we can take and we’re going to focus more on top points as soon as possible,” the company tweeted last week.
Twitter workers have had a hotspot access point to the accounts concerned. Two years later, a dishonest worker disabled President Donald Trump’s profile on the last day of his work. Since then, while the social network has strengthened protections for national leaders, it is transparent that the corporate still has a long way to go and will have to reorganize the functioning of its internal tools.