Twitter’s Own CFO Just Had His Twitter Account Hijacked
Twitter has a bit of a security problem. Taylor Swift, Chipotle, Newsweek — it seems each day brings another hijacked account or two.
Today’s latest slip-up: Twitter’s own CFO, Anthony Noto.
For about 20 minutes this morning, Noto’s account was blasting out a massive torrent of spam.
It looks like the account was hijacked somewhere around 11:10 a.m. PT and recovered by 11:30. In that stretch, nearly 300 spam tweets were sent to some of Noto’s 13,000 followers.
It’s perhaps a bit revealing, though; if the company can’t keep the account of one of its own top executives locked down, what about its other 288 million active users?
Note: URLs were obscured in the screenshot above to blur links to potentially malicious sites.
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