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| The Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive officer, was hacked and briefly hijacked on Friday in an embarrassing security lapse for the social network. | |
| At 12.44pm Pacific time, the account @jack began publishing a series of tweets from the hackers. The rapid stream of tweets included racial slurs, profanity and a reference to “a bomb at Twitter HQ”. | |
| The tweets also shared a link to a Discord server – a type of internet chat room – where users appeared to be boasting about the hack in the moments after the account was hijacked. | The tweets also shared a link to a Discord server – a type of internet chat room – where users appeared to be boasting about the hack in the moments after the account was hijacked. |
| Twitter said that it was aware that the account had been “compromised” and was investigating what happened. The offending tweets were deleted less than 30 minutes after the initial breach. | |
| “We take threats very seriously,” a spokeswoman for Twitter said in response to a question about the bomb threat. “We have looked into this threat and can confirm it is not credible.” | |
| The Guardian briefly gained access to the Discord server linked to by the hackers, where users sent messages encouraging each other to “be on the lookout” and “keep looking at twitter” shortly before the breach. The server became unavailable shortly after 1pm. | |
| Dorsey, 42, was one of the founders of Twitter and sent the first ever tweet on 21 March 2006. He served as the company’s first CEO until October 2008, when he stepped down, and returned to the role in 2015. He has 4.2m followers. | |
| Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account hacked | |
| Twitter told the US Senate intelligence committee that Dorsey uses two-factor authentication on his personal Twitter and email accounts in written responses provided to the committee in September 2018. Two-factor authentication requires an additional form of verification beyond a password to access an account, which usually comes via an SMS message or email. | |
| Dorsey is not the first technology CEO to suffer the embarrassment of a personal hack. In 2016, hackers took over the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The Google CEO Sundar Pichai and the former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick were also victimized. | |
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