Three Takeaways From the Hack of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Account

And how to keep it from happening to you

Will Oremus
OneZero
Published in
4 min readAug 30, 2019

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A close up of Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey against a white background.
Photo: Phillip Faraone/Getty

HHackers took over the Twitter account of Twitter’s own CEO, Jack Dorsey, for roughly 15 minutes on Friday afternoon. They tweeted a rapid-fire mishmash of boasts, shout-outs, racist slurs, and references to memes, along with a bomb threat and a call for Twitter to reinstate certain suspended…

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