Marchisio Boateng
The perpetrators of an unprecedented Twitter hack which happened last week accessed the direct messages of 36 affected accounts including an unnamed Dutch politician, according to Twitter.
Although the thorough internal investigation into hack, which affected more than 100 accounts, Twitter has said on Thursday that the impact was greater than was publicly visible.
The Twitter was primarily used to promote a bitcoin-based scam that raised less than $200,000 (£157,000), is ongoing.
“We believe that for up to 36 of the 130 targeted accounts, the attackers accessed the DM inbox, including one elected official in the Netherlands,” the company said. “To date, we have no indication that any other former or current elected official had their DMs accessed.”
Those 36 accounts are in addition to eight accounts that Twitter had earlier confirmed had had the entirety of their Twitter activity downloaded. None of those eight were verified accounts, the company said.
Another 45 accounts had tweets sent by the attackers, including those of Elon Musk, Kanye West and Apple chief executive Tim Cook.
