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Twitter finance chief Anthony Noto's account gets hacked

on Feb 11, 2015 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

Anthony Noto, Twitter’s chief finance officer, has suffered a mishap on the social network after his account was hacked on Tuesday (10 February).

The executive’s account was compromised by a bot which spammed Twitter users with links to an external website.

A Twitter spokesperson told Bloomberg: “His account was sending spam tweets; we’ve locked the account down and deleted the tweets.”

He refused to confirm whether Noto had signed up for two-step verification – a security measure which would have stopped such a hack in its tracks.

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Source: The Drum