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2020-07-26 Cyber
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1,000 Twitter Workers Had Access To Internal Tools That Hackers Could Exploit
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 Venture Beat.
This story is still happening even if lots of media outlets would prefer it went away.
As of earlier this year, more than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week.
Twitter and the FBI are investigating the breach that allowed hackers to repeatedly tweet from verified accounts of the likes of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
Twitter said on Saturday that the perpetrators “manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials” to log into tools and turn over access to 45 accounts. On Wednesday, the company said that the hackers could have read direct messages to and from 36 accounts, but it did not identify the affected users.
The former employees familiar with Twitter security practices said that too many people could have done the same thing, more than 1,000 as of earlier in 2020, including some at contractors like Cognizant.
Twitter declined to comment on that figure and would not say whether the number had declined before the hack or since. The company was looking for a new security head, working to better secure its systems and training employees on resisting tricks from outsiders, Twitter said. Cognizant did not respond to a request for comment. 
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