Hundreds Of High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked Through 3Rd-Party App

In a large-scale Twitter hack, thousands of Twitter accounts from media outlets to celebrities, including the European Parliament, Forbes, BlockChain, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Nike Kingdom of Spain in addition to numerous other individuals in addition to organizations, were compromised early on Wednesday.

The compromised Twitter accounts is pushing a disturbing spam message written inward Turkish comparison the Dutch to the Nazis, alongside Swastikas in addition to a "#NaziHollanda" or "#Nazialmanya" (Nazi Germany) hashtag, in addition to changed unopen to of the victims' profile pictures to an epitome of the Turkish flag in addition to Ottoman Empire coat of arms.

In add-on to the message, the hackers are equally good posting a link to a YouTube video in addition to the Twitter trouble organisation human relationship Sebo.

According to the latest reports, this weird Twitter action on numerous high-profile accounts is the number of a vulnerability inward the third-party app called Twitter Counter.

Twitter Counter is a social media analytics service that helps Twitter users to rail their stats in addition to equally good offers a diversity of widgets in addition to buttons.

"We're aware that our service was hacked in addition to conduct maintain started an investigation into the matter. We've already taken measures to comprise such abuse", Twitter Counter said on Twitter.

However, the companionship has made it rattling clear that no "Twitter trouble organisation human relationship credentials (passwords)" or "credit bill of fare information" has been compromised, equally the companionship does non shop this data on users.

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Twitter Counter is actively working on fixing the number over its end.

"Assuming this abuse is indeed done using our system, we’ve blocked all might to post tweets in addition to changed our Twitter app key," the companionship said on Twitter.

Although many of the compromised Twitter accounts conduct maintain seemed to conduct maintain taken dorsum command from hackers, the embarrassed tweets are notwithstanding visible on many compromised accounts.

Forbes appears to conduct maintain regained access to their Twitter accounts, simply are notwithstanding inward the procedure of getting fully restored. For instance, Forbes Twitter account has an egg avatar, at the fourth dimension of writing.

How To Protect Your Twitter Account

Since the assault appears to endure coming through a vulnerability inward the third-party app, users are advised to revoke permission to this app, equally good equally other unnecessary 3rd political party apps.

If yous conduct maintain ever used Twitter Counter, yous should:

• Go to "Settings in addition to Privacy."
• Click on the "Apps" section.
• Revoke the third-party access to Twitter Counter.
• Remove erstwhile apps that are no longer inward role or ones yous don't recognise.

Also, if yous haven't yet, yous are strongly advised to enable two-factor authentication on your trouble organisation human relationship via the trouble organisation human relationship settings department of Twitter. This volition assist yous protect your accounts against password attacks inward the future.

Besides enabling 2FA, ever pick out a rigid password for your accounts. If yous are unable to exercise in addition to recollect dissimilar passwords for each site, yous tin role a good password manager.