Summary: Twitter released its investigation update on the hacking incident on July 30, as Twitter’s official webpage shows. Twitter believes attackers preyed certain Twitter employees through a social engineering scheme, which is the intentional manipulation of people into performing certain actions and disclosing confidential information. Specifically, the attack can be categorized as a “phone spear phishing ...
Twitter released its investigation update on the hacking incident on July 30, as Twitter’s official webpage shows.
Twitter believes attackers preyed certain Twitter employees through a social engineering scheme, which is the intentional manipulation of people into performing certain actions and disclosing confidential information.
Specifically, the attack can be categorized as a “phone spear phishing attack”, in which attackers manipulated a small number of employees and exploited their credentials to access Twitter’s internal system.
By Lily Yang
Tags: Attack,Crypto Hack,Hack,Twitter
Link: Twitter Updates Details of Hacking Incident: It Was A Social Engineering Scheme [Copy]
