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Posted on Friday December 18, 2015 | twitter, social media, security, cybersecurity, cybercrime
Earlier this month, social media platform Twitter alerted a number of its users to the fact that their accounts may have been hacked into by something, or someone, known as a "state-sponsored actor." While a warning of this kind is certainly not unprecedented - for some time now, both Facebook and Google have also been contacting any of their users who they think may have been targeted - it suggests that attacks of this type are becoming more widespread.