Target blames Bitcoin scam tweet on third-party app, not Twitter

American retail behemoth Target has come out to clarify that a tweet it posted, containing a link to a Bitcoin giveaway scam, came from a third-party software provider – not Twitter. In an email to Hard Fork, a company spokesperson said – contrary to what it suggested previously – Target’s Twitter account was never inappropriately accessed. Rather, it appears the attackers leveraged an account owned by one of its marketing vendors to send the tweet to its audience of almost two million.. “After a thorough investigation with Twitter and our cyber security team, we’ve confirmed that an attacker accessed one…

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