<story><title>Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/30/20841288/jack-dorsey-ceo-twitter-account-hacked-chuckle-gang-shane-dawson-james-charles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtempaccount1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll be interested to see the post-mortem on this breach for sure.&lt;p&gt;As an outsider, I would have thought that the Twitter security team would have a set of high-value users (with @jack being at the top of the list) who&amp;#x27;d they keep very close tabs on in terms of any unusual activity.&lt;p&gt;Realistically Twitter is where announcements are made by world leaders and major corporations, control of these accounts could have repercussions, although in this case it just seems to have been a general hack...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryh</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think &amp;quot;keep very close tabs on&amp;quot; can prevent an attack on an account before it happens. All it can do is help clean up the damage quickly. Which is what happened here. The offending tweets were deleted in 10-15 minutes. That&amp;#x27;s a pretty good response time.&lt;p&gt;What could prevent an attack is limiting the features available to high-value users. One could imagine, for example, limiting 3rd party API access. Depending on what actually happened here, that might have prevented this. But there is a downside of reduced functionality for the owners of the accounts in question. There&amp;#x27;s always tradeoffs.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/30/20841288/jack-dorsey-ceo-twitter-account-hacked-chuckle-gang-shane-dawson-james-charles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtempaccount1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll be interested to see the post-mortem on this breach for sure.&lt;p&gt;As an outsider, I would have thought that the Twitter security team would have a set of high-value users (with @jack being at the top of the list) who&amp;#x27;d they keep very close tabs on in terms of any unusual activity.&lt;p&gt;Realistically Twitter is where announcements are made by world leaders and major corporations, control of these accounts could have repercussions, although in this case it just seems to have been a general hack...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rajesh-s</author><text>I believe they do keep close tabs on high profile accounts. I happened to notice it in my feed when the news hadn&amp;#x27;t broken out yet (took a couple of screenshots out of surprise too). The team quickly took all of it down as and when they were being posted. It lasted for about 10minutes or so. The hackers were adding mentions to other accounts which were immediately suspended by the folks at Twitter too.</text></comment>