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Twitter says hackers viewed 36 accounts' private messages


Twitter says hackers viewed 36 accounts' private messages

July 24, 2020 at 8:53 AM

Twitter has revealed that hackers viewed private direct messages (DMs) from 36 of the accounts involved in last week's hack.

It did not disclose who they belonged to beyond saying one was owned by an elected official in the Netherlands.

But the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders has told the BBC that this was a reference to his account.

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