Twitter is investigating CEO Jack Dorsey’s account being hacked

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his Twitter account hacked earlier right this moment. Twitter is investigated the compromise of Dorsey’s private account, the corporate said in a tweet, and later stated the hack was the results of a “safety oversight by the cellular supplier.”

A gaggle known as the Chuckle Gang used the account to ship tweets to Dorsey’s four million followers to advertise a Discord server and use racial slurs.

These tweets have been erased, however it seems they have been despatched from an app known as Cloudhopper, an SMS service acquired by Twitter in 2010.

The cellphone quantity related to the account was compromised attributable to a safety oversight by the cellular supplier. This allowed an unauthorized individual to compose and ship tweets by way of textual content message from the cellphone quantity. That difficulty is now resolved.

— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 31, 2019

Hackers that managed to interrupt into accounts for Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg additionally bought a maintain of Dorsey’s Twitter account in July 2016.

Think about getting hacked by yourself app

— identified (@idkalx) August 30, 2019

In 2012, Dorsey stated he hacked an electronic mail server to get his first job.

VentureBeat reached out to Twitter for additional info however a spokesperson declined to supply extra info.

Up to date 8:55 am August 31 to incorporate extra rationalization from Twitter.