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A timeline of Wednesday's epic Twitter hack, and some clues about who may have been behind it

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  1. Deimos
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    The New York Times spoke with four people involved in the hack and published some more details today: Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside The major new revelation seems to...

    The New York Times spoke with four people involved in the hack and published some more details today: Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside

    The major new revelation seems to be this claim that access to the internal admin tool was gained by getting into Twitter's Slack (which could have a lot of other scary implications):

    Mr. O'Connor said other hackers had informed him that Kirk got access to the Twitter credentials when he found a way into Twitter’s internal Slack messaging channel and saw them posted there, along with a service that gave him access to the company’s servers.

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    Brian Krebs wrote a second article about this today, with some more info he's collected about (and from) people involved in the hack: Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs And Twitter also...

    Brian Krebs wrote a second article about this today, with some more info he's collected about (and from) people involved in the hack: Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

    And Twitter also announced that direct messages were accessed for up to 36 of the 130 compromised accounts, including an elected official from the Netherlands.

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