Twilio: hacked by phishing

The communications giant Twilio confirmed that hackers they managed to gain access into a customers after defrauding employees with .

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Η based in San Francisco, which allows users to integrate φωνής και SMS – όπως έλεγχος ταυτότητας δύο (2FA) – in , said in a blog post Monday that someone with "unauthorized access" accessed information related to some Twilio customer accounts on Aug. 4.

Twilio has more than 150.000 large customers, including Facebook and Uber.

According to the company, the unknown hacker convinced several Twilio employees to provide their credentials, which allowed him to gain access to the company's internal systems.

The attack used phishing SMSs purporting to come from Twilio's IT department. The reported that o of employees had expired and advised the target to log in using a fake web address that the attacker controlled.

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