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Word is this was a compromised user admin panel (screenshots are floating around). If so, it should've taken 40 seconds to disable that thing entirely, then 15 minutes to dig through the audit logs (they have audit logs, right????) and undo the damage.
Worth mentioning that if these tools didn't exist, it's almost certainly because management didn't let security staff build them, or didn't care, or they're understaffed, not because of sec staff themselves. This is Twitter being incompetent as an organization, not individuals.
I practically guarantee the sec staff has been pitching it, for years. Probably even saying words like "existential risk" and "if you don't do this you will hit a worst-case security breach" and getting ignored.
Doesn't matter how competent your security staff are if they're ignored by leadership.
More that their "Cyber Security" leadership implements involve those in charge who lack the technical aptitude to be making rational decisions for such responsibility.
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