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title: "More than a thousand #Twitter employees and ..."
date: 2020-07-24T00:00:00.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2020/07/24/more-than-a-thousand-twitter-employees-and/
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# More than a thousand #Twitter employees and ...

More than a thousand [#Twitter](https://blog.rmendes.net/tag/Twitter) employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week.  
  
[https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN24O34E?__twitter_impression=true&s=09](https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN24O34E?__twitter_impression=true&s=09)

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