Twitter founder @jack had his account hacked. I'm not laughing at all, but if there's any justice in this world, he'll have to engage with @TwitterSupport like a normal victim and get a chance to see first hand how horrible the experience is. Hopefully this leads to some change. pic.twitter.com/9YPwzXuyNS
— Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) August 30, 2019
It's a shame he doesn't know anyone at Twitter to fix it, and get his account back.
— Pierre-Olivier Carles (@pocarles) August 30, 2019
I would try Burning Man to reach someone if I was him. Half of Twitter must be there as we talk... https://t.co/RipbIkJQ92
It’s 2019 and Twitter still obliges you to use SMS 2FA. Come on. ??♂️
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) August 30, 2019
So @jack has had his Twitter account hijacked. Everyone should ensure they have 2FA enabled, use unique password, and double check what apps they’ve linked to their accounts. Hard to say at moment how he was compromised, but one of those reasons most likely.
— Graham Cluley (@gcluley) August 30, 2019
Was it? Are we sure of this? https://t.co/bjiH3fEmC4
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 30, 2019
SIM swapping Jack is probably the most likely scenario. It’s surprisingly easy to get carriers to give up your SIM with just a few account details. Also very hard to protect against
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 30, 2019
Or he needed to get some things off his chest and obfuscated it with a bunch of other stuff that sounded "hacky." https://t.co/a5qMzlIurY
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) August 30, 2019
Watching the hacked account of this website's CEO and feeling not too keen about the POTUS tweeting about important Article II type stuff here
— Elizabeth Joh (@elizabeth_joh) August 30, 2019
Twitter's promise vs. Twitter's reality. pic.twitter.com/ilwgrw6we8
— Daniel Nazer (@danielnazer) August 30, 2019
EVEN JACK was sim-hijacked. Put a pin # on your mobile accounts y’all https://t.co/rFWAKxKlIz
— nic nguyen (@itsnicolenguyen) August 31, 2019
After a horrifying 20 minutes of n-words and actual Nazi propaganda being pushed from the CEO's hacked account, maybe Twitter will take the gamification of harassment and racism as seriously as its victims have been for years.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 30, 2019
I see Twitter is responding to this with its typical competence https://t.co/Fw928MIsZL
— Elizabeth Lopatto (@mslopatto) August 30, 2019
If the Twitter CEO’s account can be hacked, so can the unsecured account of the President of the United States.
— Mo Elleithee (@MoElleithee) August 30, 2019
Just saying. https://t.co/R3FvqqiqCl
Cloudhopper is used by Twitter to let you tweet via SMS. It’s likely the culprits either spoofed an SMS or gained access to something at Cloudhopper’s end. Either way, I’d doubt they had full access to his account. We’ll likely never know exactly what happened, though
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 30, 2019
Yes, @jack apparently had 2FA on his account. At least judging by answers he gave here https://t.co/p33aoQpIaR pic.twitter.com/Zaz6mZUzKf
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) August 30, 2019
Is it more believable that Jack is a racist and accidentally tweeted racist stuff or that he is so incompetent that he got hacked on his own platform. I literally can't decide.
— Bunny Sparber (@maxsparber) August 30, 2019
Spoke with a former Twitter employee who said Dorsey's hack should be embarrassing for the CEO. That person says Dorsey, who is known to work only on his iPhone, was told to use a more secure laptop in the past but refused. Twitter declined to comment. https://t.co/z4X94rI9OK
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 30, 2019
lol I was so busy toiling in the content mines today that I missed @jack's account getting stolen by the very people he refuses to remove from this cursed website https://t.co/FsemD447JZ
— Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) August 30, 2019
We got confirmation Dorsey was SIM jacked. Amazing the carriers haven't set up better protections against this
— Mat Honan (@mat) August 31, 2019
https://t.co/l18FN82nna
I feel bad for Jack Dorsey but this is what happens when your entire staff goes to Burning Man
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) August 30, 2019
Unfortunately, 2FA or checking your connected apps won't protect you from whoever hijacked @Jack.
— Richard Lawler (@rjcc) August 30, 2019
It looks like he was the victim of the increasingly common (and potentially devastating) SIM-swap, then the attackers just texted 40404 from his number.https://t.co/u4Cg5NRYQz https://t.co/TRMqVSIgLn
Twitter statement on @jack:
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 31, 2019
"The phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider. This allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number. That issue is now resolved."
feral hogs, bedbug stephens, jack being hacked. august 2019 is the easily the greatest month in twitter history. we may never get as pure a time as this ever again https://t.co/D8BkjTjGt5
— alex "it has to be bernie" furlin ? (@thefurlinator) August 30, 2019
Our updated story has this:
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 31, 2019
-Twitter won't confirm if @jack had his SIM card hijacked
-Twitter declined to comment on if hackers had access to DMs
-New comments from former employees who talked about lax account security for execshttps://t.co/z4X94rI9OK
Amazing that it has taken 20+ mins for anyone at Twitter to even notice that their CEO’s account has been hacked ? https://t.co/JOWNQj1JJE
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 30, 2019
Smart enough to hack Jack's account, not smart enough to use it to pump a shitcoin.
— Jeremy Ross (@jebus911) August 30, 2019
Considering he still alows Trump to have an account it's clear he was compromised long ago
— Lard Shmoopy (@zabbadab) August 30, 2019
Let's hope that this becomes the SIM-jacking case that sufficiently shames the mobile carriers into finally doing something about this security problem. https://t.co/0dHZvoaFMC
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) August 31, 2019
Everyone will say “make sure you use a secure password and enable 2FA” on Twitter but neither of those things matter if you auth third-party apps to your account. The source of the bad tweets was via cloud hopper, which jack has used before. Check your apps people ? https://t.co/iZZn0LEjnJ
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 30, 2019
We're aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019
Ha knew it. It’s always sim jacking. Our mobile service providers are the weakest link. https://t.co/gQrCCGqzDG
— Whitney Merrill (@wbm312) August 31, 2019
AT&T fucked up again and let someone SIM swap Twitter CEO's number. Carriers don't do enough to protect against this. https://t.co/O2CLMYKCxC
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 31, 2019
Four years ago Twitter’s CFO has his account breached. He wasn’t using 2FA. https://t.co/BAszeVjHJ5 I find it hard to think Twitter’s security team would let @jack make the same mistake. My hunch would be third party app compromised, but we will see.
— Graham Cluley (@gcluley) August 30, 2019
why would you hack someone’s account just to tweet the things they already think https://t.co/NWHg6qi6Zp
— Josh Raby (@JoshRaby) August 30, 2019
Twitter tells BBC it is urgently investigating what has happened to @jack's account, would not say why the account hasn’t been suspended or deactivated yet as still looking into it. Looks like tweets have stopped, many of the offending tweets seem to be disappearing now.
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBC) August 30, 2019
A source familiar now confirms: @jack had his sim swapped.
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 31, 2019
There it is. That's the tweet.
Jack: 'We're committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation'
— James Whatley (@Whatleydude) August 30, 2019
Users: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NAZIS?
Jack: pic.twitter.com/NXEVHgLclF
Important context, because it means a linked app was compromised, but they likely had no access to DMs, no copy of his password, and Twitter itself (including, presumably, 2-factor authentication) wasn’t the vulnerability. https://t.co/d6z52ITS8m
— Anil Dash ? (@anildash) August 30, 2019
Fast-twitch reporting by @BuzzFeed on the @jack hack https://t.co/xrzdWEmLdt Looks like they amplified a Discord thread & a racial epithet, too. Lovely.
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) August 30, 2019
Jack Dorsey's twitter hack is ...Sauvage.
— Kenneth Li (@kenli729) August 30, 2019
The account is now secure, and there is no indication that Twitter's systems have been compromised.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019
.@jack’s hacked tweets are being posted from an app called Cloudhopper, which is apparently an app Twitter acquired previously that had something to do with SMS. So his account appears not breached - but rather Jack’s account is still hooked up to an old service that got hacked. pic.twitter.com/V3U5rJXrDP
— James O'Malley (@Psythor) August 30, 2019
Welp. Reads like @jack got SIM swapped. https://t.co/p31wWp1acO
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) August 31, 2019
Cloudhopper was the name of the company we acquired eons ago to help bolster our SMS service. Apparently we still use the name as the client ID.
— Bryan Haggerty (@bhaggs) January 28, 2019
Some reporting from me from within the Discord of Jack's hackers.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 30, 2019
—Hackers tried to rifle through Jack's private messages, but open DMs made it too hard to tell what was important
—Users in the chat had spelled out "DONALD TRUMP" in reaction emojishttps://t.co/T9U07aD1XP
The phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider. This allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number. That issue is now resolved.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 31, 2019
Jack Dorsey got SIM swapped today giving the hacker access to his twitter account.
— James Todaro (@JamesTodaroMD) August 31, 2019
If the CEO of twitter can get SIM swapped, you better believe that it can happen to you.
If you use your real name on social media (eg Crypto Twitter), do NOT use SMS text as your 2FA. https://t.co/4OUTw80XpR
Among the apparent reasons Dorsey refused the laptop: He didn't like carrying things on his long walks.
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 30, 2019
I’m having flashbacks to the day that Twitter contractor nuked Trump’s account
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 30, 2019
Jack on prozac, says flak, after hack from SIM crack make jack sad sack but jack bounce back after sipping cognac on horseback amid lilac and making wisecrack with another megalomaniac https://t.co/dFy61cpmVt
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) August 31, 2019
i did my own investigation and what happened is that there are nazis on the platform https://t.co/cHlYIB67O9
— Kristin Chirico (@lolacoaster) August 30, 2019
Not everyone wants to be a drug dealer.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) August 31, 2019
Not everyone wants to rob a billionaire.
Some people just want to watch the world point and laugh. https://t.co/M1zVOVkqQr
Twitter CEO @jack's account has been hacked, apparently by an entity called Chuckling Squad, which also recently hacked the accounts of YouTube stars James Charles and Shane Dawson, among others. https://t.co/FaoPN7tvtx pic.twitter.com/tPNpsc3so2
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) August 30, 2019
Had to do it. You should read it. https://t.co/6sMNNnaYWd
— Paul Wagenseil (@snd_wagenseil) August 30, 2019
Spoke with a former Twitter employee who said Dorsey's hack should be embarrassing for the CEO. That person says Dorsey, who is known to work only on his iPhone, was told to use a more secure laptop in the past but refused. Twitter declined to comment. https://t.co/z4X94rI9OK
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 30, 2019
Our updated story has this:
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 31, 2019
-Twitter won't confirm if @jack had his SIM card hijacked
-Twitter declined to comment on if hackers had access to DMs
-New comments from former employees who talked about lax account security for execshttps://t.co/z4X94rI9OK
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Was Hacked On Twitter. The culprit? SIM hijacking. #cybersecurity https://t.co/mcseGwLbI3
— Rob Waters (@rmawaters) August 31, 2019
Dorsey, hacked twice, “has shunned efforts to better secure him and his devices [and] prefers to do the majority of his work from his iPhone...Part of the reason...was that Twitter's CEO did not like to carry items with him during his long walks.” https://t.co/M1gdj2laEf
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) August 31, 2019
If @Jack can get hacked, we all can! So now’s as good a time as ever to:
— Kevin Town (@kevin_town) August 30, 2019
? Change your password
? Set up 2-factor authentication
? Check which apps you’ve given permission to (Settings & Privacy > Accounts > Apps & Sessions)#CyberSecurity #Hacking https://t.co/U5j40LCZ2g
Hilarious! He does nothing about trolls on his platform, and now he's hacked.
— Lisa Laporte (@lisadlaporte) August 31, 2019
Love it! Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Was Hacked On Twitter https://t.co/aBLfoEvajO via @itsnicolenguyen
How Jack was hacked: A source confirmed Dorsey had been "SIM swapped” https://t.co/wpvIXC2tQv
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) August 31, 2019
The CEO Of Twitter Was Hacked https://t.co/YoOulpPhS4
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) August 30, 2019
The personal account of Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was hacked Friday and filled with erratic and racist tweets...https://t.co/okcQKV8iiv
— Nick Short ?? (@PoliticalShort) August 31, 2019
"Broadly, the hacking raises the question of how secure Twitter’s protections are for the accounts of world leaders such as President Trump."https://t.co/zHkGXsYnVk
— Navid (@NYCNavid) August 31, 2019
just hacking up my twttr
— Leigh Fatzinger (@lfatzinger) August 30, 2019
https://t.co/pMIU7pPZ9B
Could I get a collective awww poor Jack?
— .•♫•♬• l??я?? •♬•♫•.? (@dizzymom64) August 30, 2019
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked! https://t.co/TY0T34UPc0
How did it feel to lose your freedom and voice?
— BernieBro?Kavn:#Bernie2020?will #FreeAngryBerner (@kavn) August 31, 2019
We know how it feels when twtr reads and #censors us all the dang time.
Yeah,yeah,I'm not endorsing hacking; just communicating about empathy.?
Because we better not annoy our masters - the oligarchy.?https://t.co/DL2G3ij6E2
Ooooops....Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/9TRdfI32UG via @nbcnews
— JBrian (@sunterra1014) August 30, 2019
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/sZyrAAqwm9
— DL⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@DianeLong22) August 31, 2019
#KarmaStrikes
— Dan IFB Edmonds (@DanWantsFreedom) August 30, 2019
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/QBtEWyScpg via @nbcnews
Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked. https://t.co/9eIWkNMVkj
— Mr. Scooter 3120 (@chp3120) August 30, 2019
The official Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of the social media platform, was hacked on Friday.
— ??????? (@ellievan65) August 30, 2019
One of the first tweets sent from his "compromised" account was the N-word. Another, sent minutes later, praised Hitler. https://t.co/24nFxVbQrm
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked
— Gary Holland ?? ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ?? (@gholland04) August 31, 2019
Oops ... ? https://t.co/e85k35XtL5
If this tw*t's account is vulnerable, where does that leave the rest of us.
— Trump is a psychopath (@imaginary_gods) August 30, 2019
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/PH1vCfIaGw via @nbcnews
#Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked ????
— ?Type of Way??⭐??⭐??⭐??? (@cajunsoulfire74) August 30, 2019
One of the first tweets sent from his "compromised" account was the N-word. Another, sent minutes later, praised Hitler.https://t.co/mqlF5E01CR
NEW: One of the first tweets sent from his "compromised" account was the N-word. Another, sent minutes later, praised Hitler. via @janellefiona https://t.co/Ft8MKN5KGb
— NBCBLK (@NBCBLK) August 30, 2019
What no 2FA? https://t.co/n43w0UqCVA
— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) August 30, 2019
Twitter co-founder 'Cracker' Jack Dorsey's account hacked! ? Ha ha ha.... https://t.co/pdUN1xqfex
— Queenstown ?⚔?? (@veritasrepublic) August 30, 2019
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— ?Charli? (@CharlieResist86) August 30, 2019
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/5uNzzOedZM #SmartNews
Twitter says CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was 'compromised' for a period of timehttps://t.co/mlN7F6IwC5
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) August 30, 2019
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/uWpBZ5ObPS
— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) August 30, 2019
Hey, uh, @Jack? Your platform has this great feature called "2-factor authentication." Maybe you should, you know...turn it on? ?https://t.co/sdsTlKIXvi
— Unseen Japan ???️? (@UnseenJapanSite) August 30, 2019
Don't Be Like Jack — Make Sure Your Twitter Account Isn't Hijacked https://t.co/2B4n8WbgDD pic.twitter.com/IvI3skNUuY
— Tom's Guide (@tomsguide) August 30, 2019
I think this story officially replaces the "Nobody is Safe" meme
— Tanvi Ratna (@tanvi_ratna) August 31, 2019
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Was Hacked On Twitter https://t.co/VeC1vLVWOv via @itsnicolenguyen
This is absolutely humiliating for @jack Dorsey.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) August 31, 2019
Twitter's CEO doesn't follow the most basic of security advice re: using 2FA authenticator apps, and refuses to use a secure laptop because he "doesn't like to carry items with him during his long walks."https://t.co/m2PFPU5atu pic.twitter.com/m1zfikLohb
▼TwitterのドーシーCEOのアカウントがハックされ、差別的なツイートを投稿(解決済み)https://t.co/iz4r2aPSg2
— Ken Sugar? (@ken_sugar) August 31, 2019
▼Twitter CEO #JackDorsey Was Hackedhttps://t.co/5OuAOZgJp7
(これ偽者がSSNやクレカ下4桁申告でSIM番号乗っ取れる米キャリアの事務的脆弱性「SIMスワップ」っぽいのがなんとも…)
Honestly, how would we even knowhttps://t.co/QHClZAavy9 pic.twitter.com/061BFbTp6C
— ? Brosephine Wires (@JoParkerBear) August 31, 2019
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Was Hacked On Twitter #Innovation #tech #success https://t.co/IGXLhvyIV2
— David Tareen (@DavidTareen) August 31, 2019
Twitter says it is investigating after tweets containing racist and anti-Semitic slurs were posted from the CEO’s personal account https://t.co/ZNknpwd097
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) August 31, 2019
#TwitterMoments ?
— ?Wolfx 1 #MuzikkZone? #TeamDollNATURE Co-Founder (@DCordell2016) August 30, 2019
.@Twitter co-founder @Jack Dorsey’s account hacked, tweet-storms racist comments https://t.co/tWpIwkgzw4 #SmartNews
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey hacked his own account fabricated entries to merit it’s justifiable to attack conservatives or whomever doesn’t share his views of a new Marxist utopia.
— Betty Boo (@Betty32Boo) September 1, 2019
“Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked” https://t.co/TqQImldJdW
HE LETS TRUMP TWEET WHATEVER HE WANTS TO WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS! https://t.co/l5qSw8Ib0k
— Charles Seymour (@charliesey60) August 31, 2019
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/4Xl3snOawr via @nbcnews. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it! Unbelievable!
— American (@jayh2800) September 1, 2019
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked https://t.co/0GpvwqOWxU via @nbcnews
— Peter Lombard (@tutticontenti) August 31, 2019
Spews racism... https://t.co/6MhVZru52L
— Drudge Report Feed (@drudgefeed) August 30, 2019