Twitter hack: 367 users lost over Rs 90 lakh in just 2 hours

New Delhi, July 16 (IANS)  As Twitter went through the worst-ever cyber attack on any social media platforms on Thursday, at least 367 users transferred around $1,20,000 (over Rs 90 lakh) to hackers in Bitcoins before the Twitter teams swung into action to stop the cryptocurrency scam that hit several top-notch public profiles.
According to the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, the major scam flags the fact that we are living in the era when even people with computer skills might be lured into a scammers trap and even the most secure accounts can be hacked.
“In our estimates, within just two hours, at least 367 users have transferred around $1,20,000 in total to attackers. Neither a website/software is entirely immune to bugs nor is the human factor immune to mistakes.
Therefore, any native platforms might be compromised,” Dmitry Bestuzhev, a Cybersecurity expert at Kaspersky, told IANS.
Twitter admitted it was a “coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools”.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has also apologized.