Twitter Is Removing Images of Internal Tool Sources Say Enables Account Takeover
After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.
On Wednesday, a wave of high profile accounts including those of Joe Biden, Uber, and Apple tweeted cryptocurrency scams in an apparent hack.
Two sources close to or inside the underground hacking community provided Motherboard with screenshots of an internal panel they claim is used by Twitter workers to interact with user accounts. One source said the Twitter panel was also used to change ownership of some so-called OG accounts—accounts that have a handle consisting of only one or two characters—as well as facilitating the tweeting of the cryptocurrency scams from the high profile accounts.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos