Tue. 08/16 – Was The Twilio Breach A Route Into Signal?
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🗓️ 16 August 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, August 16th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough. |
| 0:08.4 | Today was the Twillio Breach really about hacking into signal users. |
| 0:13.4 | Apple's serious about returning to the office. |
| 0:16.1 | Tired, a global chip shortage. |
| 0:18.1 | Wired, a global chip glut. |
| 0:20.9 | Amazon says the FTC is harassing its executives and how far can |
| 0:24.8 | Uber go to raise prices. Here's what you missed today in the world of |
| 0:28.0 | tech. |
| 0:30.0 | Remember that access the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for around 1,900 users as a part of that |
| 0:46.2 | Twilio breach, or maybe I guess as a result of it, which makes sense if you were going to breach |
| 0:51.9 | Twilio, the highest value thing that you would be |
| 0:54.5 | looking for would be something like signal users right quoting Tech crunch |
| 0:59.5 | Twillio which provides phone number verification services to signal, said on August 8th that malicious |
| 1:05.2 | actors access the data of 125 customers after successfully fishing multiple employees. |
| 1:10.3 | Twilio did not say who the customers were, but they are likely to include large organizations |
| 1:15.0 | after Signal on Monday confirmed that it was one of those victims. |
| 1:19.0 | Signal said in a blog post Monday that it would notify about 1,900 users whose phone numbers or |
| 1:23.3 | SMS verification codes were stolen when attackers gained access to Toulio's |
| 1:27.4 | customer support console. While this didn't give the attacker access to |
| 1:31.4 | message history, which Signal doesn't store or contact lists |
| 1:35.3 | and profile information which is protected by the user's security PIN. Signal said, |
| 1:39.7 | quote, in the case that an attacker was able to re-register an account they could send and receive |
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