Digital authentication company Twilio said some employees and customers were victims of a hack, a Bloomberg report said Monday (Aug. 8).
The hackers tricked employees into giving up their passwords.
The report said attackers targeted Twilio employees with fake texts, which said the staffers’ password credentials had expired. The texts had links to websites which “appeared to be legitimate” and then harvested employee information.
The company hasn’t identified the specific attackers who committed the breach. It has reportedly hired on a computer forensics firm to look into remediation for the issue.
Twilio also said there were other companies who got attacked, but it did not name them.
Twilio is an attractive target for attackers since access to its service would give hackers access Twilio clients or their accounts.
“This broad-based attack against our employee base succeeded in fooling some employees into providing their credentials,” Twilio said in a blog post on Sunday. “The...
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