Posts trying to dupe people into sending the hackers Bitcoin were tweeted by the official accounts of Apple, Uber, Bill Gates and many others on Wednesday, forcing Twitter to lock large numbers of accounts in damage control | The attack was carried out by a group of young friends — one who lives with his mother — with no links to state or organized crime, The New York Times reported on Friday |
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It did not name the employees involved in the drama | com, which monitors crypto transactions |
The paper said it interviewed four people who participated in the hacking, who shared logs and screenshots backing up their accounts of what happened.
26Most of those have now been restored, Twitter said on Saturday | For the 130 accounts that were accessed, Twitter said the hackers were able to see personal information including email addresses and phone numbers |
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It also shut off accounts not affected by the hack as a precaution |