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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

Twitter API Flaw Exposed Users Messages to Wrong Developers For Over a Year

September 25, 2018 by Connor Fairman Leave a Comment

A flaw in Twitter’s API was sending user’s messages to businesses to the wrong place. There are tools available for businesses to build special applications that interact with Twitter. This is used for things like customer service and Q/A. To build these applications, the company has a developer with a developer key registered with Twitter. When a user uses the app created by the developer, their data/whatever they are sending gets sent to the account associated with that developer’s developer key. What happened here is that user data somehow was sent to the wrong developer account. Having built APIs before, I can testify that they sometimes do funky things that you don’t expect. Thankfully, in this situation, it seems as though a very small group of people was affected.

 

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/twitter-direct-message-api.html

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