Hundreds Of High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked Through 3Rd-Party App

In a large-scale Twitter hack, thousands of Twitter accounts from media outlets to celebrities, including the European Parliament, Forbes, BlockChain, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Nike Kingdom of Spain as well as numerous other individuals as well as organizations, were compromised early on Wednesday.

The compromised Twitter accounts is pushing a disturbing spam message written inward Turkish comparison the Dutch to the Nazis, amongst Swastikas as well as a "#NaziHollanda" or "#Nazialmanya" (Nazi Germany) hashtag, as well as changed unopen to of the victims' profile pictures to an prototype of the Turkish flag as well as Ottoman Empire coat of arms.

In improver to the message, the hackers are besides posting a link to a YouTube video as well as the Twitter trouble organisation human relationship Sebo.

According to the latest reports, this weird Twitter activeness on numerous high-profile accounts is the trial of a vulnerability inward the third-party app called Twitter Counter.

Twitter Counter is a social media analytics service that helps Twitter users to rail their stats as well as besides offers a multifariousness of widgets as well as buttons.

"We're aware that our service was hacked as well as get got started an investigation into the matter. We've already taken measures to incorporate such abuse", Twitter Counter said on Twitter.

However, the companionship has made it really clear that no "Twitter trouble organisation human relationship credentials (passwords)" or "credit carte du jour information" has been compromised, every bit the companionship does non shop this data on users.

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Twitter Counter is actively working on fixing the number over its end.

"Assuming this abuse is indeed done using our system, we’ve blocked all might to postal service tweets as well as changed our Twitter app key," the companionship said on Twitter.

Although many of the compromised Twitter accounts get got seemed to get got taken dorsum command from hackers, the embarrassed tweets are yet visible on many compromised accounts.

Forbes appears to get got regained access to their Twitter accounts, precisely are yet inward the procedure of getting fully restored. For instance, Forbes Twitter account has an egg avatar, at the fourth dimension of writing.

How To Protect Your Twitter Account

Since the laid on appears to survive coming through a vulnerability inward the third-party app, users are advised to revoke permission to this app, every bit good every bit other unnecessary tertiary political party apps.

If yous get got ever used Twitter Counter, yous should:

• Go to "Settings as well as Privacy."
• Click on the "Apps" section.
• Revoke the third-party access to Twitter Counter.
• Remove erstwhile apps that are no longer inward purpose or ones yous don't recognise.

Also, if yous haven't yet, yous are strongly advised to enable two-factor authentication on your trouble organisation human relationship via the trouble organisation human relationship settings department of Twitter. This volition assist yous protect your accounts against password attacks inward the future.

Besides enabling 2FA, ever pick out a rigid password for your accounts. If yous are unable to exercise as well as retrieve unlike passwords for each site, yous tin purpose a good password manager.

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