Twitter warned of the danger of hacking accounts

The social network Twitter has sent out parts of its users a letter in which it warned about the threat of hacker-sponsored “state-sponsored” attacks. This writes the Financial Times. It did not specify which country pays for the services of computer burglars.

Hackers may try to get phone numbers, email addresses and IP addresses of users, according to the company. Hackers "managed to harm a small group" of owners of Twitter-accounts, according to the publication. In these cases, the company conducts its investigation.

Google and Facebook have already introduced additional security measures to protect accounts from hacking, said the newspaper. For example, Facebook did it in October.

According to the on-line survey of Twitter users, approximately one in five (20 percent) of them received emails with warnings. The company Twitter confirmed sending the letter, but declined to comment further.

In 2013, Twitter has already sent its users a notification about the possible theft of email addresses and passwords from their account. Then more than 200 thousands of users received emails, reminds Financial Times.

The owner of the social network is Twitter Inc., headquartered in San Francisco. Twitter microblogging service launched in July 2006. It allows you to exchange short texts with a limited length of messages in 140 characters.

As Forum previously wrote, Twitter will cut eight percent of its employees – 336 jobs in the company. Despite revenue of $1,4 billion in 2014, the company lost $578 million.

Recently Instagram bypassed Twitter by number of users.

Nevertheless, developers on Twitter are not standing still and are trying to customize it for the user. For example, recently reported that microblogging develops A new product that will allow users to post messages longer than 140 characters.