Scammers Hack Twitter: The Information’s Tech Briefing

Wednesday’s hack of the Twitter accounts of top executives and politicians, including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Barack Obama, is an enormous black eye for the company. 

Scammers have used Twitter before to make money. What is worrisome about this hack is the possibility, raised by some people on Twitter, that the hackers gained control of the company’s internal systems to access the accounts.