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‘A successful attack on your system’s servers represents a threat to the privacy and data security of all its users. … Did this attack threaten the security of the President’s own Twitter account?
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The above lines came Wednesday from Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri as Twitter Inc. TWTR,
was dealing with the hijacking of prominent accounts to tweet bitcoin BTCUSD,
scams
President Donald Trump, who often makes news with his posts on the social media platform, did not appear to have been one of the hacked users, but alleged Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama took over the accounts. .
Hawley asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey a series of questions through a letter he shared on Twitter. “How many users may have faced data theft as a result of this violation?” the Republican senator asked.
Democratic lawmakers also reacted to the attack, and Rhode Island Rep. Jim Langevin tweeted that he had just testified at a hearing on Wednesday about “the point where @WhiteHouse needs a #NationalCyberDirector to help stop this type of activity, and more more importantly, avoid a catastrophic event. ” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York warned her followers that “if my account tweets any strange cryptocurrency related links, DO NOT click on it.”
Congress has had Silicon Valley in its sights, rolling out bills that address privacy, censorship, security, algorithms, facial recognition, children’s issues, and many other issues. However, some analysts have said lawmakers are unlikely to make bipartisan progress on any issue before the November election, in part because there are many disparate criticisms of Big Tech.
But the CEOs of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.Co,
GOOGL,
, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN,
Apple Inc. AAPL,
and Facebook Inc. FB,
They are scheduled to testify on July 27 before the antitrust subcommittee of the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives.
Related:Bitcoin prices did not flinch after major Twitter hijack
Twitter shares fell 2% on Thursday morning, while the S&P 500 SPX,
lost 0.5%
.
