Twitter never fail to disappoint . Despite its safe ( ? ) sweat , the platform remain the samebot - riddled , neo - Nazi - friendlycesspool that ’s full of the sameharassment and hatewe’ve come to await . With that state , it might not be too surprising that the gamey - profileTwitter hacking incidentfrom earlier this month — you know , the one that hitKanye West and Barack Obama , along with a slew of other big shots in the populace of entertainment , tech and politics — ended up being more of a shitshow than the platform ab initio let on .
In athreaddropped Wednesday dark by the fellowship ’s official Support account , Twitter let on that 36 of the 130 accounts caught up in the initial hack ended up having their DMs accessed as a result . include in those 36 , evidently , was one elect official in the Netherlands .
“ To date , we have no indication that any other former or current elect official had their DM accessed , ” they added .
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To recap: 🔹 130 full accounts place by aggressor 🔹 45 report had tweet transmit by attackers 🔹 36 accounts had the DM inbox access 🔹 8 accounts had an archive of “ Your Twitter Data ” downloaded , none of these are Verified
— Support ( @Support)July 23 , 2020
Though Twitter did n’t name names with this announcement , eventually , the Dutch initiate , Geert Wilders , revealedhis account was in the centre of it all , saying that the hacker used that admission to “ send direct messages in [ his ] name , ” which is , as he put it , “ unsufferable . ”
In some style , it ’s kind of ironic that Wilders , of all people , had his report compromised in the slap-up 2020 Twitter Hack . For years now , his outwardly Islamaphobic opinion , business - savvy background , and obvious dye Book of Job have earned himcomparisonsas a Dutch Donald Trump . And while his account was tapped as a part of last week ’s consequence , Trump ’s was weirdlyleft unaffected , potentially due to thebeefed - up protectionsTwitter uses to safeguard his account . If it was n’t , there ’s a good chance that the OG Trump would ’ve fallen prey to the same scheme as his Dutch vis-a-vis .
Regardless of how you feel about Wilders ’ ( or Trump ’s ) opinions ( or hairstyles ) , the hack convey up a in effect argumentation for Twitter to finally adopt last - to - end encryption on its message military service , which is something we ’ve been pray forfor years . In fact , the company has been tinkering with the ideasince 2018,and hadpromisedat least one senator that the company was “ working on it . ” Since then , social media psychoanalyst Matt Navarra has hail forwardsayingthat sources within the company had reportedly shelved the encoding idea back in 2019 , with no plans to disperse it off anytime presently .
Meanwhile , on an remuneration call earlier today , CEO Jack Dorsey wasstrangely quieton the topic of encrypted chatting , but did affirm that the ship’s company was work on adding a subscription element , saying that :
We require to make certain any new line of revenue is complementary to our advertising business . We do cogitate there is a universe where subscription is complementary , where Commerce Department is complementary , where helping people manage paywalls [ … ] we think is complementary .
laughable how “ encrypted electronic messaging ” does n’t seem to be complementary , despite the fact thatmultiple other platformshave already cracked that particular issue . I retrieve I verbalise for everyone when I say that asking Tweeters to pay up might not be the reply that we ’re looking for .
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