To be director of the office of management and budget. The senate limited debate and advanced his nomination on a partyline vote of 7744. At 5 30 p. M. , the senate votes on confirmation of the vote nomination. Getting your thoughts on that very highprofile pack of twitter that occurred yesterday, asking you how concerned you are about it. 202 7488000. Is the number. If you live in mountain or pacific time zones. The twitter hack is drawing questions about the platforms security and resilience in the runup to the u. S. President ial election. Twitter said that hackers have contained obtain control of those of president ial critic candidate joe biden. Musk ashian and elon the story goes on to say that twitters role of the Critical Communications platform for political candidates and Public Officials including donald trump has led to fears that have hackers could wreak havoc during the election or otherwise compromised national security. Adam konner, a liberal think tank said on twitter, this is instantly d be infinitely worst infinitely worse on november 3. Here is how it went down on the twitter support tag which tweets yesterday, we are aware of the security incident impacting accounts on twitter. We are taking steps to fix it and will update everyone shortly. That was at 5 45 yesterday. 10 48 p. M. , twitter support saying, our investigation is still ongoing. We detected what we believe to be a coordinate engineering attack by people who have successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools. We know they used this access to take control of highly visible including verified accounts and tweet on their behalf. We are looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it. Once we became aware of this incident, he immediately locks down the affected accounts and removed tweets posted by the hackers. Functionalityd for even those with no evidence being compromised wildly while we continue to investigate. Twitter said, it was an important step to reduce disappeared both flex nelly has been restored but we will take further action and update you when we do. That was twitter support. There last week saying, we have locked accounts and will restore access to the account only when we are certain that we can do so securely and they have restored most of those. Causing a lot of concern including among politicians and they weighed in on twitter as this was happening. Senator brian schatz of hawaii saying they should be given some space to conduct an investigation but given the extent to which Public Officials communicate through twitter, this could be tried dangerous quite dangerous. Generalscommanding tara copp being hacked. Hacked. Er account being i do have great concerns about what the hack of twitter means for the safety of our elections and other critical infrastructure. We have toan ever, strengthen our nations cybersecurity. Congressman holly rudolph, this hack is a reminder that we must do more. Today it is bitcoin, tomorrow it could be a fake declaration of war. One other member that weighed in yesterday was senator josh hawley of missouri, the republican senator yesterday amid this hack sending a letter to jack dorsey, the ceo of twitter about the attack asking for cooperation with federal law enforcement. Here is a little bit of the letter that he sent jack dorsey. Twitter seems to be excusing a cyberattack illustrated by a number of posts allowing users to sponsor bitcoin. The account targeted includes those for apple, uber, jeff bezos, barack obama, and joe biden. This list of affected accounts is growing by the minute. Some accounts have been protected by twitters two factor authentication. Include, did this event or was it a breach of users own account security or of twitters systems. Were accounts protected by two factor authentication successfully targeted and if so, how is this possible . Did this breach, mice security whose accounts were not used to share fraudulent tweets, if so were other accounts affected . How many users may have faced data theft as a consul because of this breach and so on. That was the letter that senator josh hawley sent amid that attack that was happening. We are asking you this morning in this last segment of the washington journal to call in and let us know if you are concerned about what happened on twitter yesterday. Is the number if you are in the eastern or central time zones. Number if8001 is the you are in the and and or pacific time zones. You can go ahead and start calling in. Frommore reaction, this some News Reporters and congressional reporters who follow this. They were tweeting yesterday as this was happening. One newspaper saying, to some extent i wonder why twitter is doing the investigating here. Isnt it the territory of the secret service . And one more from Walter Shapiro who is a columnist saying, the only good news for biden is that the twitter hack was in july and october and it was work going rather than promoting diabolical rumors. A little bit more from that story about the one connection and what the hackers were trying to get. This from their story that we started off on this hack, posing a celebritys and wealthy, the hackers asked followers to send their Digital Currency to a series of addresses. 400 bitcoin transfers were made worth a combined 120,000. Half of the victims have funds in bitcoin it changes, one quarter in europe and one quarter in asia. Those transfers live history that can help and identify the perpetrators to find the financial damage may be limited because multiple exchanges other payments after their own twitter accounts blocked other payments. The damage may be more serious. Most troubling to some was how long the company took to stop the bad tweets. Asking you to weigh in on this topic. If youre in the eastern or central time zones. 202 7488001 if you were in the mountain or pacific time zones. Those tweets deleted but the , thistreet journal today was their lead story but they also posted some images of what that hack looks like showing the tweet that came from the verified twitter account of joe biden and the former president. The tweet said, i am giving back to the community, all bitcoin sent to this address will be sent back double if you send 1000, i will send back 2000 and then the tweet saying, only doing this for 30 minutes. Very similar messages on other celebrity pages and members of congress. We want to hear what you think is your if you are concerned about this especially in light of the lead up to the 2020 election and how Public Officials, how the president uses their twitter account to communicate with the public. Catherine is up first out of missouri. Good morning. Caller michigan. St. Joseph, michigan. Sorry about that. I apologize. Caller i think people need to stop using all of these communication. Of we know that china and other to hacks are trying into things in our country. I think maybe we should shut a lot of them down. Why do we need to communicate like that . I know the president does it to get information out because our newspapers a lot of it is not true what they are putting out there. There are other medias. There is cspan here that we can call in and view our opinion and get some truth. The concern is what if someone were to hack the president s account and tweet out a message saying i am declaring war on the country. 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