Privacy News Online’s weekly video recap includes the top privacy stories, hosted by tech news commentator Brian Tong.
Starting this week, each episode includes a cybersecurity news segment hosted by Intego’s Chief Security Analyst, Josh Long. This week’s video features the following security stories.
Of those 130, attackers sent tweets from 45 accounts, accessed the direct messages of 36 accounts, and downloaded a complete Twitter Data export from eight non-Verified accounts. (Twitter later changed its story to say that Twitter Data was exported from only seven accounts.)
Reuters reports that at least 1,000 Twitter employees have recently had the same level of access that the attackers gained, making it easier for the bad guys to find an employee to hack, bribe, or extort to hijack nearly any Twitter account. (Twitter later stated that they have now “significantly limited access to our internal tools and systems.”)
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that three male suspects, aged 17, 19, and 22, had been charged for crimes related to the Twitter attack.
At the time this week’s video segment was recorded, it was not known whether Garmin paid the reported $10 million ransom—although this was later all but confirmed by BleepingComputer.
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