wordpress blog stats
Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Twitter accounts of major institutions fall victim to hack through TwitterCounter

Twitter’s been hacked again, and this time multiple accounts, including those of major brands and institutions like Duke University, Nike Spain, BBC North America, Reuters Japan, Forbes Magazine, Amnesty International and Western Australia's power utility, have all fallen to the exploit, reports Gizmodo. The hacked accounts have tweeted in Turkish with the date 16th April, a date when a referendum will be held in the country to give the president more power. According to the report, the tweets include the words like Nazi Germany and Nazi Holland. The tweets also describe the hacks as a ‘little Ottoman slap’, and end with ‘what did I write? Learn Turkish.’ In a statement, Twitter said that “We are aware of an issue affecting a number of account holders this morning. Our teams are working at pace and taking direct action on this issue. We quickly located the source which was limited to a third party app. We removed its permissions immediately.” The third party app mentioned is TwitterCounter, an analytics service for Twitter. TwitterCounter has admitted to the hack, and said that it has started an investigation into the matter. It also mentions that it has now blocked all ability to post tweets and changed its Twitter app key and that any further activity would mean it's not the only one hacked. However, it's worth noting that the platform was previously targeted in a November 2016 attack causing well-known accounts to spread spam. The Twitter Counter application is blocked on Twitter. If this…

Please subscribe/login to read the full story.
Written By

MediaNama’s mission is to help build a digital ecosystem which is open, fair, global and competitive.

Views

News

Factors like Indus not charging developers any commission for in-app payments and antitrust orders issued by India's competition regulator against Google could contribute to...

News

Is open-sourcing of AI, and the use cases that come with it, a good starting point to discuss the responsibility and liability of AI?...

News

RBI Deputy Governor Rabi Shankar called for self-regulation in the fintech sector, but here's why we disagree with his stance.

News

Both the IT Minister and the IT Minister of State have chosen to avoid the actual concerns raised, and have instead defended against lesser...

News

The Central Board of Film Certification found power outside the Cinematograph Act and came to be known as the Censor Board. Are OTT self-regulating...

You May Also Like

News

Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...

Advert

135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...

News

By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...

News

Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...

MediaNama is the premier source of information and analysis on Technology Policy in India. More about MediaNama, and contact information, here.

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ

Subscribe to our daily newsletter
Name:*
Your email address:*
*
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ