State-sponsored hackers would like to obtain e-mail addresses and phone numbers of Twitter users, as it is reported in the electronic version of Financial Times, RBC-Ukraine reports.
The edition emphasizes that the company has started storing and saving information of social network users several months ago. Now they have started receiving messages warning about hacking threats from “state-sponsored actors”. Twitter does not specify the country or countries.
Twitter has started sending this warning for the first time.
The company supposes that hackers have managed to inflict damage to a “small group” of account owners.
Such companies as Google and Facebook have already established additional security measures with the purpose of protection of accounts from breach. For example, Facebook did it in October.
