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What has happened?
– On Saturday, someone appeared to have taken control of one of Ekot’s official Twitter accounts. Strange messages, often racist, began to be sent. By 2 p.m., it appeared that Swedish Radio had removed the Twitter posts on the assembly line, while continuing to send out more people.
How bad is it?
– The account had almost 100,000 followers and was verified by Twitter, which should be a guarantee that the sender is genuine. Losing control of such an account is certainly not good.
– At the same time, it could have been worse. The posts that the person (or group) behind the intrusion posted were so bizarre that it was impossible to believe they actually came from Ekot. It would have been worse if someone had posted credible but false news.
– This happened to the AP news agency as early as 2013, when a false announcement about explosions in the White House was tweeted from its official account, but hacked, causing a short-term panic on international stock exchanges. Swedish radio should be glad that the attacker does not appear to have wanted or been able to write anything more credible.
How can that happen?
– We still don’t know exactly how it happened. This summer, the Twitter accounts of a long list of celebrities were hacked, from Joe Biden to Elon Musk to Kanye West. So the hackers must have exploited or misled the employees on Twitter. Something similar may have happened here, but it may also have happened in some other way. A key question is whether Sveriges Radio protected the account with a so-called two-factor login, which means that guessing a password is not enough to take over the account.
– It should also be remembered that this does not mean that someone has hacked into the Swedish Radio’s internal system, but, as far as we know, only this Twitter account.
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Data breach against Sveriges Radio’s twitter account
