Government Issues Notice to Twitter After Recent Hack
The demand data of authorities for vulnerability exploited via attackers.
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India's cybersecurity nodal employer CERT-In has issued a observe to Twitter asking the micro-blogging platform for full small print of the latest world hack focused on high-profile users, as it sought whole facts on quantity of Indian customers affected as nicely as have an effect on on data, a supply said.
The supply privy to the improvement informed PTI that CERT-In has additionally asked Twitter for records on range of customers from India who have visited the malicious tweets and links, and whether or not the affected customers have been knowledgeable by using the platform about unauthorised get right of entry to to their Twitter accounts.
The authorities has additionally demanded statistics of vulnerability exploited with the aid of attackers and modus operandi of the assault and sought important points of remedial movements taken via Twitter to mitigate the influence of the hacking incident. Twitter used to be no longer at once reachable for comments.
Cyber attackers had hacked into the Twitter money owed of international excessive profile customers - consisting of former US President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden as nicely as many company leaders together with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk - on Wednesday in a purported Bitcoin scam.