Twitter Disables Tweet-via-SMS After CEO Jack Dorsey Got Hacked
Less than a week later Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's business relationship on the micro-blogging platform was hacked by a notorious hacking group called 'Chuckle Squad', the company announced that information technology has temporarily turned off the tweet-via-SMS functionality that is believed to have been exploited past the miscreants to send a series of disturbing tweets from Dorsey's business relationship last Friday.
In a message on Wednesday, the company said that the footstep is necessary to ensure that telecom service providers address the vulnerabilities at their terminate to prevent the steady stream of hacks faced past celebrities and public personalities in the US over the by few weeks. The company as well said that information technology working on a better way to ensure ii-factor hallmark (2FA) for enhanced security.
We're temporarily turning off the ability to Tweet via SMS, or text message, to protect people's accounts.
— Twitter Back up (@TwitterSupport) September 4, 2019
In instance y'all don't know it already, Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked last Friday later on the phone number associated with his account was compromised "due to a security oversight by the mobile provider". According to reports, the rogue tweets were sent via Cloudhopper, a service Twitter bought in 2010 to eternalize its SMS service. The service works by posting to Twitter any text bulletin sent to 404-04 from phone numbers linked to people's Twitter accounts.
The then-called Chuckle Squad has been on a hacking spree of late, attacking the Twitter accounts of a number of celebrities and public personalities over the past month, including beauty vlogger James Charles, Shane Dawson, comedian King Back and most recently, extra Chloe Moretz. Rogue AT&T employees are thought to be behind most of the hacks, which is why Twitter is emphasizing that role of the mobile operators in the whole episode.
Source: https://beebom.com/twitter-tweet-sms-disabled/
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