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The series of offensive tweets emanating from Jack Dorsey on Friday afternoon obviously did not come from Jack Dorsey. A group of hackers took over the Twitter account of the co-founder and CEO of the company, the guardian reports. The attack only lasted 30 minutes, Twitter said, but tweets containing racial slurs, anti-Semitic comments and a hint that a bomb was in Twitter's headquarters were posted. the company later said that there was no bomb. Twitter also later said that only Dorsey's account had been hijacked. A link was posted on Discord, a site where the hackers seemed to be joking about the attack. This channel was removed quickly, according to the BBC. Hackers who call themselves the mocking team said they were responsible.
The hackers were able to post by transferring the phone number connected to Dorsey's account to a new SIM card. This method, called SIM exchange, often involves corrupting or misleading a customer support employee for a mobile operator. Hackers could then post their tweets via SMS. In Business Insider, Alexei Oreskovic considers the attack as "something terrifying". The company will not say what steps it has taken to protect President Trump's Twitter account, but it's not hard to imagine the chaos that could be caused by a takeover. More than 90 minutes passed between the first tweet attributed to Dorsey Friday and the announcement of the securing of his account by Twitter. This could be a warning, writes Oreskovic, that Twitter can not protect the Of the president Account. (Read more stories of cyberattack.)
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