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Yeah, that would be my hunch too. To gather potentially damaging messages from Obama, et al, and damage Twitter. Interesting that the Russian Foreign Ministry's Twitter was hacked last week. Maybe related (a test or to throw off the scent?): https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/07/04/hackers-...


Looks like the hackers might've gained access to an internal admin panel. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23853786


It's an interesting coincidence that the "digital guru" Brad Parscale was demoted and another guy promoted at the end of the day. Hopefully it's not related, but the list of Twitter accounts compromised would be an oppo researchers dream (and there could be more accounts compromised that weren't publicly flagged).

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/politics/trump-campaign-manag...




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