Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account Hacked

Twitter CEO's account briefly hacked and briefly hijacked

The Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive officer, was hacked and briefly hijacked.

Jack's official twitter handle @jack began publishing a series of tweets from the hackers. The rapid stream of tweets included racial slurs, profanity, praise for Adolf Hitler and a reference to “a Bomb at Twitter HQ”. The hackers appear to refer to themselves as the “Chuckling Squad”-get it trending for the password.
Twitter officially confirmed the hack by its twitter handle and the same will be regained control of the account within a span of 30 minutes, saying that it had found “no indication” that Twitter’s systems were compromised. 

Yes, Jack's account was compromised. We're working on it and investigating what happened.

— Brandon Borrman (@bborrman) August 30, 2019

A company spokeswoman also said that Twitter had “looked into” the bomb threats and could confirm that they were “not credible”.

Apparently, Hackers tweets more than 10 Tweets were posted in a span of 20 minutes.

How did Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account get hacked?

Hackers get hacked Twitter CEO Jack's account by using a technique called "simswapping" (or "simjacking") in order to control Jack Dorsey's account.

Process of Sim Swapping/Sim Jacking

• This technique allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number- in this case, one associated with Mr. Dorsey's account - is transferred to a new Sim card, usually after attackers trick or bribe customer support staff at a mobile provider.

• By taking control of the number, the attackers were able to post tweets via text message directly on to Mr Dorsey's Twitter account.

• While nowadays the overwhelming majority of users use mobile apps to tweet, Twitter's early days were built around texting in updates - hence the character limit - and Twitter has kept this method, in part because of its use in developing countries with high data costs.

• Sim swapping occurs when a hacker manages to convince a mobile phone carrier – often through bribery or trickery of low-level employees – to switch a particular phone number to a different Sim card, giving the hacker control of the phone number.

Someone found out the number Jack Dorsey linked to twitter for SMS and used that to post. “Cloudhopper” is how SMS posts show up because Twitter doesn’t give a shit about anything.

Another great reason to treat your personal phone number like your password and use Google Voice.

— EJ Fox 🌞 (@mrejfox) August 30, 2019

Hackers also set Jack’s official messaging inbox to ‘open,’ making it possible for the public to send messages to his account. 

The account is now secure, and there is no indication that Twitter's systems have been compromised.

— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019

This is not the first time when a high-profile person got his account hacked.

Jack Dorsey is not the first CEO to suffer the embarrassment of a personal hack, nor is this the first time his account has been compromised. In 2016, a hacking group known as OurMine Security took over the accounts of numerous celebrities and tech executives, including Dorsey, Same happened with Mark Zuckerberg when his Twitter account was hacked in 2016.