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Twitter admits state-backed hackers in Malaysia, Iran and Israel may have stolen up to 17million phone numbers linked to Android user accounts
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Hackers were exploiting a vulnerability in Twitter's 'contacts upload' feature
- Twitter said 'some of these IP addresses may have ties to state-sponsored actors'
- A 'high volume of requests' came from IP addresses in Iran, Israel and Malaysia
Could the Israeli ones have been from the Palestinian territories, or perhaps be other than state sponsored?
- Website did not elaborate on how many accounts may have been affected
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-02-05 |
