Twitter has revealed access to their admin interface was gained through social engineering, a very broad term with actual details of what happened to follow in due course.
As an example Coinbase was almost hacked last year through the gradual gaining of trust of their employees through email exchanges by pretending one is some sort of business or academic official for some conference, all of it leading towards getting the employee to click on a link that then activated a 0-day Firefox exploit.
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