Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his Twitter account hacked earlier today. Twitter is investigated the compromise of Dorsey’s personal account, the company said in a tweet, and later said the hack was the result of a “security oversight by the mobile provider.”
A group called the Chuckle Gang used the account to send tweets to Dorsey’s 4 million followers to promote a Discord server and use racial slurs.
Those tweets were erased, but it appears they were sent from an app called Cloudhopper, an SMS service acquired by Twitter in 2010.
https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1167591003143847936?s=09
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Hackers that managed to break into accounts for Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also got a hold of Dorsey’s Twitter account in July 2016.
https://twitter.com/idkalx/status/1167527273576009728
In 2012, Dorsey said he hacked an email server to get his first job.
VentureBeat reached out to Twitter for further information but a spokesperson declined to provide additional information.
Updated 8:55 am August 31 to include additional explanation from Twitter.
