Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach

Attackers also targeted specific employees who had access to account support tools, Twitter said, adding that it restricted access to its internal tools and systems ever since the incident occurred. — Reuters

Twitter Inc, whose internal systems were breached about two weeks ago, said on July 30 the incident targeted a small number of employees through a phone “spear-phishing” attack.

The US microblogging site said the hackers targeted about 130 accounts, tweeted from 45, accessed inbox of 36, and were able to download Twitter data from seven.