AROUND 130 TWITTER ACCOUNTS HACKED! A CYBER THREAT?

 

Around 130 Twitter accounts have been hacked, Twitter confirmed yesterday, as the evidence tells that the hacking was done by some petty hackers. In an absolutely unpredictable cyber attack on some high-profile twitter account the hackers somehow got the control of the accounts without tampering with the passwords. 

As we all know that passwords are the key to get into your account but in this attack no passwords were tampered or known rather the hackers bypassed the passwords and got the access of the accounts directly, done by some coding process.

On Friday’s morning Twitter added: “For a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts.”

Another statement was declared from Twitter which goes as: “We are continuing to assess whether non-public data related to these accounts was compromised, and will provide updates if we determined that occurred”.

The FBI's attention has also been grabbed by the Twitter handles getting hacked. FBI has now taken the command and is in action. “We are aware of today’s security incident involving several Twitter accounts belonging to high-profile individuals. The account appears to have been compromised in order to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud,” FBI said.

A suspicious post from an unknown forum which was posted very shortly before the accounts were hacked says that “One can get access to any Twitter handle by paying $2500-$3000 and if anybody wants to reset the email address linked to individual account, it can be done by paying the charge of just $250.

It’s not only this attack by the hackers, everyday a massive number of accounts of Facebook, Instagram, twitter and other accounts of the people’s are getting hacked. According to sources in this hacking, the hackers concentrated on getting access to the phone numbers, from which they were able to crack the two-factor authentication key, which gave them the direct access to the Twitter handles.

The New York Times also posted an article on Friday after taking the interview of some of the pseudonymous hackers.

According to some sources, a hacker known as Kirk who initially gave his identity as the Twitter employee is the suspect. This could also be done by some petty hackers who are specialized in hacking social media handles by the process know as “Sim swapping”.