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Twitter Says It Was The Victim Of A 'Coordinated Social Engineering Attack'

Twitter confirms to NPR that it is investigating the coordinated hack, which attacked the accounts of some of the richest and most popular names on Twitter and may have reaped more than $100,000.
Twitter says it is investigating the coordinated hack, which attacked the accounts of some of the richest and most popular names on the social media platform.

Updated 11:30 p.m. ET

Twitter says it was the victim of a "coordinated social engineering attack" by unspecified individuals who targeted Twitter employees with access to sensitive internal administrative systems.

The breach implicated the accounts of some of the richest and most famous people on the social media platform, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, former President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kanye West and others.

As Twitter investigates what appears to be the largest and most coordinated hack in Twitter's history, the company has vowed

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