by Twitter states it “proactively” locked an undisclosed number of users out of their accounts, after it suffered its largest attack ever…
After last week’s hugely embarrassing hack, Twitter immediately moved to limit the damage. The social microblog did so by proactively locking down a number of user accounts. This, after attackers compromised high-profile names like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Elon Musk.
Twitter Proactively Locked Accounts after Last Week’s Hack
Twitter took the action and posted a message that was addressed to anyone affected. The company stated it made the move to investigate more possible account hacks. However, the social site did not say just how many accounts were affected by the automatic lock out.
Not only did Twitter fail to disclose the number of impacted accounts, it did not provide instructions how those individuals could regain access to their profiles. But, it did say that it was taking extra caution to ensure the rightful owners regained access.
Here’s an update addressing questions we’ve heard around passwords and account access specifically:
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020
Out of an abundance of caution, and as part of our incident response yesterday to protect people’s security, we took the step to lock any accounts that had attempted to change the account’s password during the past 30 days.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020
