This Tuesday a fall in the social network of Twitter is reported. According to the Dowdetector monitoring portal, since 1:00 pm there has been a substantial increase in the number of problem notifications.
Users have reported intermittence. In some cases the web page does not load, in others it does so partially and in others it works relatively normally.
Downdetector points out that about 86 percent of the reports are for the web version.
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Twitter admits a cyber attack
This Friday, Twitter revealed that the security of 5.4 million accounts would be compromised by a cyber attack. As explained by the social network, this was due to a vulnerability identified in January 2022 through its bug bounty program.
“We want to make you aware of a vulnerability that allowed someone to enter a phone number or email address into the login flow in an attempt to learn if that information was linked to an existing Twitter account, and if so, to which specific account,” says the social network on its blog.
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The vulnerability, they explain, is due to a code update in June 2021.
“When we learned of this, we immediately investigated and fixed it. At the time, we had no evidence to suggest that anyone had exploited the vulnerability,” Twitter said.
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Despite this, the company continues, in July 2022 they learned through a press report that someone took advantage of this vulnerability to sell information they had collected.
“We will directly notify account owners that we can confirm were affected by this issue. We are posting this update because we cannot confirm all accounts that were potentially affected,” Twitter said.
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This seven-month window exposed not only personal profiles but also accounts created under pseudonyms, making it possible to identify who is behind them.
“We are particularly aware of people with pseudonymous accounts who may be targeted by the state or other actors,” the company notes.