Twitter suspected “government hacking” – Utro.Ru

The administration of the social network Twitter has sent a number of warning users that their accounts could be hacked by order of state bodies, with the host country are not called.

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Hackers, as stated in the report, be able to access e-mail, IP-address and phone number, which the company recently started to request from their users, “Interfax” referring to the Air Force.

A similar warning to the Twitter had to release the first time, although in November, another social network – Facebook, both wrote The New York Times, notified employees of the US State Department about the cyber attacks against them. State Department learned of the breaking of the messages Facebook, according to US edition.

Google began warning users about such actions by hackers supported by the governments of individual countries even in 2012 with the help of banners on their websites.

It is unknown how many users could be affected by the incident with Twitter. Among the recipients of the message included, in particular, a Canadian non-governmental organization Coldhak.

“We believe that these performers (possibly related to the authorities) could try to get the following types of information: email address, IP-address and / or numbers, – stated in the sent out to users of the e-mail. – So far we have not received confirmation that the (attackers) managed to obtain personal information from your account, but we are investigating. We would like to share in great detail, but we do not have any additional information “, – the report says Twitter.

In the past, some of hacker attacks on Western companies and government agencies were the authorities of China and North Korea. Some computer experts believe that in the burglary internal communications, Sony last year also were the North Korean authorities, however, Pyongyang has always denied any involvement in the incident.

Meanwhile, the experts on cyber security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, James Lewis, hackers, receiving the support of the authorities, far more resources than ordinary criminal hackers. According to him, they can use different methods, such as real estate agents or intercept messages to bypass existing security measures.