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Matrix.org (matrix@mastodon.matrix.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 05:59:59 EDT Matrix.org

RT @josephfcox@twitter.com
Update from us from speaking to people involved in the hack and obtaining more screenshots: Twitter employee leveraged access to internal tool to help take over accounts today. Hackers paid insider https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1283593343365050368
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  Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts
  
  After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.
1. Matrix.org (matrix@mastodon.matrix.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 06:00:00 EDT Matrix.org
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  In a decentralised world, an inside job could only impact a single server instance... and in an E2EE verified world, the insider wouldn't be able to spoof messages anyway. We should get on and add signing for public messages to Matrix's E2EE.
  
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