Twitter exploit let 'bad actors' match phone numbers to accounts

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For dissidents around the globe, Twitter remains the tool of choice for speaking out against their repressive governments. 

With that in mind, it's easy to see why today's announcement from the social media company is so troubling. Twitter, in a Monday blog post and corresponding statement, announced it had discovered that "bad actors" with possible state-sponsored connections had found a way to tie phone numbers to Twitter accounts en masse. 

In other words, a hacker using this exploit could potentially reveal the identity of a person tweeting under a pseudonym who has their account tied to a phone number. Or, alternatively, it's worth remembering that determining the phone number connected to an account is often a crucial step in hacking it.  Read more...

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