The US Department of Justice is working in cooperation with the X platform to track down those responsible for a hacking attempt aimed at recovering passwords for the accounts of a large number of platform users.
The US authorities said that the attack targeted the mechanism for recovering accounts and passwords, a process that... Account owners use them when they lose access to their accounts or forget passwords.
Reuters reported that the attempt targeted hundreds of thousands of users, prompting the relevant authorities to cooperate with X to investigate the source of the attack and identify those responsible for it.
And dominate The incident highlights the security risks associated with account recovery services, as attackers can exploit these mechanisms to attempt to control accounts or access user data.
The platform and the competent American authorities are continuing to investigate the incident, while it has not been completed Announcing full details regarding the identity of the perpetrators of the attack or the size of the accounts they were actually able to access.
