How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked

What happens when Twitter CEO’s own account is hijacked? It raises tons of security questions for the millions of users on the platform. On Friday afternoon, hackers took over Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account using an utterly simple technique.

As The Verge reports, the vandals who go by the name Chuckling Squad got in through Twitter’s text-to-tweet service, which requires linking of the phone number to the account, operated by Cloudhopper.