On Friday, Twitter Chief Executive Officer’s account was hacked.
The hacker then proceeded to .
Some of the tweets contained the hashtag #ChucklingSquad, which was believed to indicate the identity of the hacker group. The same calling card was left behind during recent hacks of other high-profile social media personalities.
Twitter said that the phone number associated with Dorsey’s account was “compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider,” allowing a hacker to posts tweets to @jack by sending text messages.
Dorsey’s account has been secured and there was “no indication that Twitter’s systems have been compromised,” according to the San Francisco-based internet firm.
The tweets were not sent by Jack Dorsey’s actual account; hackers used a vulnerability in the Short Messaging Service (SMS) that twitter used int he past where users could post messages through texts.
The tweets were labeled as posted by Cloudhopper, an SMS company Twitter purchased in 2010, back when some users regularly used text messages to send tweets. Today, if a text is sent to 40404 from a US phone number associated with a Twitter account, that account will post the text, and it will be labeled as coming from Cloudhopper.
Pinned atop Dorsey’s account was a tweet from early last year saying: “We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.”
A barrage of comments fired off on the platform questioned why the Twitter co-founder didn’t secure his account better, and how disturbing a sign it was that the service couldn’t keep its own chief safe on the platform.
Well, what if the hacker had posted Wamlambez?
The whole KOT – Kenyans on Twitter would have discussed the issue for eons.
