Twitter says hackers read direct messages from 36 accounts

According to the Twitter on Wednesday the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands.

In tweets from its support account and an updating blog post, Twitter stated it had no indication that the private messages of any other elected officials were obtained.

Twitter earlier said the attackers tweeted from 45 accounts and downloaded mass data from eight accounts. Accessing direct messages would be seen as in between those two levels of compromise.

The hackers would have been able to see phone numbers and email addresses but not previous passwords, the company on Wednesday added.

Twitter did not instantly respond to a question about whether the 36 accounts with stolen messages were among the 45 used to tweet, which involved such well-known names as CEOs Elon Musk and Bill Gates and former Vice President Joe Biden.