Twitter DMs – Dozens Of Twitter DMs Exposed on Twitter – Update on Twitter Bans : Although Twitter didn’t reveal the name with this announcement, the Dutch expert, Geert Wilders, revealed his account was in the middle of all this, making it known that the hackers used that access to send direct messages in his which he still hasn’t gotten over as he put it as “unacceptable”.

In some ways, it is so shocking that Wilder had his account hacked in the Great 2020 Twitter Hack. Sometime now, his outwardly Islamaphobic opinions, business-savvy background, and obvious dye job have earned him comparisons as a Dutch Donald Trump.

And while his account was tagged as a part of the event, Donald Trump’s was weirdly untouched, which is as a result of stronger protections Twitter uses to safeguard his account. If it wasn’t there, I’m pretty sure he would have gotten his account compromised as well.

The hack brought up and an argument for Twitter to start using end-to-end encryption on its messaging service, which users have been begging the organization to do for years.

Not only did they have it in mind, but Twitter also went as far as promising at least one senator that the company was already working on it.

Ever since, media analyst Matt Navarra has come out to say that sources within the company had reportedly shelved the encryption idea back in 2019, with no plans to dust it off anytime soon.

Twitter Locked Out Users Who Changed their password

The Twitter barn door has been aggressively and forcefully shut – it is so pathetic that it happens to have slammed shut on a lot of people during the process.

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It was confirmed by Twitter that besides an ongoing compromise of internal systems that was malfunctioning, it took preliminary steps of looking fetching out all the users that had changed or even made attempts to change their password in the last 30 days.

It is so unfortunate for that untold number of users, it’s not exactly clear when or if they are going to have access to their accounts again.

“Out of an abundance of caution, and as part of our incident response yesterday to protect people’s security, we took the step to lock any accounts that had attempted to change the account’s password during the past 30 days,” read a Thursday afternoon statement from Twitter’s support account.

A Twitter spokesman declined to provide a number of how many accounts have been affected, however, it is likely a lot, though.

In contribution to that, all the people usually change their password over monthly, a least some percentage of Twitter’s over 300 million users likely took the absolutely reasonable precaution to change their password.

“We have no evidence that attackers accessed passwords. Currently, we don’t believe resetting your password is necessary”

This was a tweet from Twitter Support, in addition to preventing verified accounts from tweeting for hours, felt the need to completely freeze a huge number of other accounts.