Watching the slow motion Twitter trainwreck is just amazing. I hope we get an amazing postmortem out of this, but chances are their security team is just incompetent/understaffed and this just boils down to someone's credentials being stolen and them failing at containment.
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Short of a nation state level attack, there's no reason this should've taken more than 5 minutes to contain, TBQH.
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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.
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Vice seem to be saying someone on the inside got paid.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos …
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Doesn't really change the fact they should've been able to lock them our quickly, though.
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