Twitter’s response to hacking spree of high-profile accounts

Tweet from Kanye West's hacked Twitter account.

Several high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked on Wednesday by attackers in a security breach. The hijacks took control of public figures and major corporations accounts, using them to spread a cryptocurrency scam.

Twitter responded to the attacks saying it was “a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”