Nothing gets a quicker response from a company than its CEO being hacked, especially when that company is a social networking giant.
Twitter responded to last week’s hack of Jack Dorsey’s account by temporarily halting users’ ability to tweet via SMS.
Dorsey’s account was hacked last week and used to spread pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic messages, along with other hateful content.
Kate Conger of The New York Times reported last week that the hack was executed using messaging service CloudHopper, which enables its users to tweet via text message after linking their mobile phone numbers to their accounts.
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