Twitter hackers accessed direct messages of up to 36 accounts – The Guardian

The perpetrators of last weeks unprecedented Twitter hack accessed the direct messages of up to 36 affected accounts, the company has confirmed.
The accounts include that of an unnamed elected official in the Netherlands, believed be far-right legislator Geert Wilders.
Although the internal investigation into last weeks hack, which affected more than 100 accounts and was primarily used to promote a bitcoin-based scam that raised less than $200,000 (£157,000), is ongoing, Twitter said on Thursd…

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