Sci & Tech
Twitter Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Hacked

Yesterday afternoon Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was hacked by a group that calls itself the Chuckle Squad.
Chuckle Squad Used Jack’s account to tweet racial slurs, antisemitic messages and at least one catastrophic denial from Dorsey’s account.
Some offensive tweets were up for about 10 minutes, though not long after the hack began, those tweets were already being deleted, and they’re all gone now. Here are some screenshots of those tweets
Roughly an hour and a half after the hack, Twitter tweeted that the account is now secure, and there is no indication that Twitter’s systems have been compromised.
We're aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019
Later, Twitter pointed the blame at Dorsey’s cell carrier, saying that the phone number associated with the account was compromised due to security oversight by the mobile provider, which apparently allowed the hackers to send the tweets using text messages.
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
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 however said that they have settled the issue and all other accounts are safe and were not affected .
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 account has been hacked.
The Tweets are coming from a source called Cloudhopper. Cloudhopper was the name of the company Twitter acquired a long time ago to help bolster their SMS service.
Looks like the hackers are Tweeting via the old SMS service… pic.twitter.com/YcU3DTn9wS
— Sam (@Hooray) August 30, 2019
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