The company is still investigating the incident, but sources in the hacking community now say that Twitter’s own representatives had something to do with the attack.
A Twitter employee collaborated with hackers to take over blue-ticked accounts across the platform on Wednesday, Vice reported, citing two sources from a hacking community responsible for the attack. It also provided leaked screenshots obtained by Vice’s Motherboard allegedly proving the deed.
According to the sources cited by the outlet, the Twitter insider was paid to “literally” do “all the work” for the hackers. The employee could have provided hackers with access to a necessary tool which helped them carry out the attack or simply hijacked the account by himself or herself, Vice said, citing the comments of a Twitter spokesperson.
So far, the Twitter Support team has only publicly stated that: “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.”
Screenshots of Internal User Tool Get Deleted on Twitter
Vice’s Motherboard provided screenshots, allegedly proving that celebrity-held accounts were hijacked using an internal administration tool at Twitter. One of the screenshots shows the internal panel of a cryptocurrency-exchange Binance account that was also hacked on Wednesday. The media notes that the accounts could have been compromised through a change of the email address linked to them with the help of an internal tool.
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