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CERT Issues Notice To Twitter To Provide Details
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siteadmin on 21/07/2020 05:19:00


As the high profiles user account are getting frequently hacked, The India’s
cybersecurity nodal agency CERT-In has issued a notice to Twitter for full
details of the recent global hack targeting high-profile users. The details that
are needed is the complete information on number of Indian users affected as
well as impact on data.Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) swung
into action after reports that hackers gained access to Twitter’s systems to
hack accounts of many global corporate leaders, politicians, celebrities and
businesses.
The government has also demanded information of vulnerability exploited by
attackers and modus operandi of the attack and sought details of remedial
actions taken by Twitter to mitigate the impact of the hacking incident.
Twitter was not immediately available for comments.
As in the news of the past, various celebrity accounts on twitter was reported
as hacked by cyber attackers. This includes the some high profile political and
corporate owers like
Former US President Barack Obama
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden
Corporate leaders including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
Tesla CEO Elon Musk