Twitter is one of the famous social media platforms where you can follow all the famous tycoons and big personalities. But on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, a massive incident took place which creates a controversy when the world’s most recognizable person executives and celebrities account hacked. it does put a question on the high security, data, and privacy of twitter. Because more than 130 profiles of most recognizable person executives and celebrities were hacked worldwide. And the man who hacked twitter is just a teenaged boy who lives in Florida (US). He did this task with his 2 more friends.

Who Hacked Twitter?

Graham Ivan Clark

Yes, Graham Ivan Clark, a 17-year-old boy, was the mastermind of Twitter hacking. Graham Ivan Clark is a high school graduate from Florida (US) where he lived himself alone. And Two other people, Mason John Sheppard, 19, of the United Kingdom, and Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Florida were helping Graham Ivan Clark during the takeover.

TWITTER STATEMENT  AFTER THE INCIDENT –

“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools

How Twitter Accounts Were Hacked?

Vice was contacted by at least four individuals claiming to be part of the scam and presented the website with screenshots showing that they had been able to gain access to a Twitter administrative tool, also known as an “agent tool” that allowed them to change various account-level settings of some of the compromised accounts, including confirmation emails for the account. The hackers told Vice that they had paid insiders at Twitter to get access to the administrative tool to be able to pull this off. ………. Wikipedia

July 17,2020 Twitter,

Twitter stated that “The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections. As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams.

Method Of Twitter Hacking –

Graham Ivan Clark

used the “phone spear-phishing attack”. Graham Ivan Clark and his team initially used social engineering to breach the credentials of lower-lever Twitter employees who did not have access to the admin tools and then using those employee accounts, engaged in additional social engineering attacks to get the credentials to the admin tools from employees who did have authorization for their use.

The hack was able to bypass numerous security factors they had set up on the account, including two-factor authentication, further indicating that the administrative tools had been used to bypass the account security

What is Social-Engineering?

Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access; in most cases, the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim. Social engineering using impersonation (e.g. to gain information over the phone, or to gate-crash) is known informally as blagging. In addition to criminal purposes, social engineering has also been employed by debt collectors, skip tracers, private investigators, bounty hunters, and tabloid journalists. A study by Google researchers found that up to 90 percent of all domains involved in distributing fake antivirus software used social engineering techniques.

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