Thai PM's Twitter Hack Was An Inside Job
Yesterday, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra lost access to her Twitter account. A nefarious hacker had stolen her password and locked her out, tweeting critical statements towards her and her government.
Her security team is now saying that the hacking was a result of an inside job, a Thai national who accessed her email and used that to break into her Twitter account.
According to the Associated Press, the hacker accessed YingLuck’s account (formerly at @PouYingluck), and tweeted eight times before going offline.
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