More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts, sources say

The former employees familiar with Twitter security practices said that too many people could have done the same thing, more than 1,000 as of earlier in 2020, including some at contractors like Cognizant. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week.

Twitter Inc and the FBI are investigating the breach that allowed hackers to repeatedly tweet from verified accounts of the likes of Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg.