# What the Twitter Hack Revealed About Common Company Security Flaws

DevFeed: [What the Twitter Hack Revealed About Common Company Security Flaws](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-twitter-hack-29951.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/twitter-hack/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Virag Mody)

Published: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [X (Twitter)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/twitter.md>), [Social engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/social-engineering.md>), [account](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/account.md>), [Virtual Private Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vpn.md>), [Logging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/logging.md>)

Tags: [attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/attacks.md>), [bitcoin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bitcoin.md>), [credentials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/credentials.md>), [logging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logging.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [social-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/social-engineering.md>), [techniques](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/techniques.md>), [twitter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/twitter.md>), [vpn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vpn.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary examines the 2020 Twitter hack, arguing that the incident exposed security weaknesses common across companies. It describes credential theft through impersonation and social engineering, followed by access to an internal account-management tool and Bitcoin scam messages.

## Source excerpt

The Twitter hack was not orchestrated by a nation state. Twitter was hacked by an average teenager who was too young to have his own driver's license.