Twitter Inc issued an
alert to some users warning them that state-sponsored hackers may have tried to
obtain sensitive data from their accounts, the company said, the first such
warning by the micro blogging site.
The notice said there
was no indication the hackers obtained sensitive information from what it said
were a “small group of accounts” targeted.
It did not provide
additional information about the attack or possible suspects in its
investigation.
Twitter’s notice is the
latest amid concern about cyber attacks by state-sponsored organizations.
Government agencies, businesses and media have all been hacked.
Motherboard, a tech
news site, and the Financial Times earlier reported on Twitter’s warning.
One organization that
said it received the notice, a Winnipeg-based nonprofit called Coldhak, said
the warning from Twitter came on Friday. The notice said the attackers may have
been trying to obtain information such as “email addresses, IP addresses,
and/or phone numbers”.
Coldhak’s Twitter
account, @coldhakca, retweeted reports from a number of other users who said
they received the notice. Coldhak and the other users did not indicate why they
may have been singled out.
Colin Childs, one of
the founding directors of Coldhak, told Reuters his organization has seen “no
noticeable impact of this attack”.
Google and Facebook
have also started issuing warnings to users possibly targeted by state-sponsored
attacks.
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