{"id":15771,"date":"2020-07-17T11:24:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15771"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:28:10","slug":"trump-to-keep-twitter-after-hacks-white-house-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15771","title":{"rendered":"Trump to keep Twitter after hacks, White House says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump will maintain his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account after a series of high-profile verified accounts were hacked, the White House said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president will remain on Twitter, but his account was secure and not jeopardized during these attacks,&#8221; spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Several prominent Twitter accounts were hacked Wednesday including those of musician Kanye West, tech luminary Elon Musk and US presidential contender Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The accounts of former President Barack Obama, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, financier Warren Buffet and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were also affected.<\/p>\n<p>Screen grabs taken from the accounts appeared to show them posting a link asking for Bitcoin donations, variously saying in some form they are &#8220;giving back&#8221; to their communities or fans by doubling any donations provided via the fraudulent links.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the hack was discovered Twitter proactively froze troves of accounts, including verified accounts and any that changed passwords within the past 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was disruptive, but it was an important step to reduce risk. Most functionality has been restored but we may take further actions and will update you if we do,&#8221; the microblogging website&#8217;s support account said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks, Twitter said, were &#8220;a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 US President Donald Trump will maintain his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account after a series of high-profile verified accounts were hacked, the White House said Thursday. &#8220;The president will remain on Twitter, but his account was secure and not jeopardized during these attacks,&#8221; spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told reporters. Several prominent Twitter accounts were hacked Wednesday including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15773,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions\/15773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}