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September 5, 2019 10:45 pm

Twitter Disables SMS-to-Tweet Feature After Its CEO Got Hacked Last Week

Twitter is disabling the ability to send tweets via SMS messages after an incident last week when the company's CEO Twitter account got hacked via this feature. From a report: The social network said the move is only temporary, but did not provide a timeline for the feature's reactivation. Twitter blamed the whole issue on mobile networks and "vulnerabilities that need to be addressed by mobile carriers."

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