Hackers paid Twitter employee for help: Report

By Haley Victory Smith

Published July 16, 2020 6:13pm ET

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Hackers paid Twitter employee for help: Report — Two people claiming to be responsible for Wednesday’s massive Twitter hacking said they paid a Twitter employee to help them with the breach. “We used a rep that literally done all the work for us,” one of the sources told Vice News. The hackers, as well as the screenshots Vice obtained, claim to show that […]

Two people claiming to be responsible for Wednesday’s massive Twitter hacking said they paid a Twitter employee to help them with the breach.

“We used a rep that literally done all the work for us,” one of the sources told Vice News.

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