Hacker offers 5.4 million Twitter account details for $30,000: ReportAccording to AppleInsider, a hack of 5.4 million users is small compared to the 478 million T-Mobile customers affected in August 2021. It ...
24 Jul, 2022, 03.22 PM IST
Hacker claims to have stolen 1 billion records of Chinese citizens from policeThe anonymous internet user, identified as "ChinaDan", posted on hacker forum Breach Forums last week offering to sell the more than 23 ter...
04 Jul, 2022, 03.49 PM IST
Twitter account of Narendra Modi's personal website hacked, social media site confirmsThe incident comes after several Twitter accounts of prominent personalities were hacked in July. Twitter said it was aware of the activity...
03 Sep, 2020, 10.07 AM IST
US prosecutors charge three people for their roles in Twitter hack, Bitcoin scamProsecutors in Florida said they filed 30 felony counts against 17-year-old resident of the state identified as the "mastermind" of the cyb...
01 Aug, 2020, 08.14 AM IST
High-profile breach: Twitter says hackers used phone to fool staff, gain accessThe embarrassing July 15 attack compromised the accounts of some of its most high profile users, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and celebrit...
31 Jul, 2020, 04.58 PM IST
Twitter says DMs of 36 accounts, breached in hack; Dutch lawmaker's handle compromised tooSeveral of Twitter's employees were manipulated by hackers.
23 Jul, 2020, 11.33 AM IST
Twitter says hackers 'manipulated' employees to access accountsHackers accessed Twitter's internal systems to hijack some of the platform's top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, re...
18 Jul, 2020, 09.06 PM IST
Twitter says about 130 accounts were targeted in cyber attack this weekAccounts of celebrities and political figures including Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama and Elon Musk were hacked during the cyber ...
17 Jul, 2020, 08.27 PM IST
Users won't be able to tweet via SMSes; Twitter fixing vulnerability after Jack Dorsey's account was hackedLast week, Twitter CEO was the target of a so-called 'SIM swap' fraud.
05 Sep, 2019, 01.00 PM IST
Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Quora account hackedThe reportedly three-man hacker group called OurMine posted several messages on Pichai's Quora account. The tweets have now been removed.
27 Jun, 2016, 02.37 PM IST
Katy Perry's Twitter account hacked, tweets about feud with Taylor Swift surfaceSinger Katy Perry's Twitter account, which has 89 mn followers, was hacked. The hackers also posted some nasty tweets.
31 May, 2016, 12.04 PM IST
Taylor Swift says Twitter, Instagram accounts were hackedThe Grammy winner was back to tweeting two hours after the hacking, in which users were asked to follow two accounts that Twitter now lists...
28 Jan, 2015, 07.53 PM IST
- Twitter to settle FTC charges on data security
US regulator FTC and Twitter have agreed to settle charges that the micro-blogging site failed to safeguard personal information of million...
25 Jun, 2010, 06.40 PM IST
- Hackers zoom in on Twitter accounts
Next time you are unable to log on to your twitter account and a message pops up asking you to reset your password, beware!
15 Jun, 2010, 12.58 AM IST
- Police arrest Frenchman who hacked Obama Twitter page
French police have arrested a hacker who sabotaged the account of US President Barack Obama in one of his attacks on the Twitter online soc...
25 Mar, 2010, 02.17 AM IST
- Twitter briefly blocked by hackers
Hackers briefly blocked access to the popular Internet messaging service Twitter, steering traffic to another Web site where a group report...
18 Dec, 2009, 04.39 PM IST
- Twitter users face another round of outages
Due to defensive measures Twitter took against denial-of-service attack, some Twitter clients were unable to connect to the site. Here's ho...
08 Aug, 2009, 05.35 AM IST