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Twitter nixes tweets by text after CEO account hack


September 5, 2019

WASHINGTON: Twitter on Wednesday halted users´ ability to fire off tweets via text messages as it seeks to fix a vulnerability that led to CEO Jack Dorsey´s account being hijacked. Dorsey last week was the target of so-called “SIM swap” fraud, which enables a hacker to trick a mobile carrier into transferring a number — potentially causing people to lose …

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