The download tool does not provide access to Twitter messages, a spokeswoman said.
Twitter said on Wednesday that hackers who breached its systems last week likely read direct messages from 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands.
In tweets from its support account and an updated blog post, Twitter said it had no indication that private messages from other elected officials had been obtained.
Twitter previously said the attackers tweeted from 45 “verified” accounts, including those belonging to names as well-known as CEOs Elon Musk and Bill Gates and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Asked by Reuters whether the 36 accounts on which messages could have been read included verified accounts, Twitter said it would not respond.
Typically, someone with the ability to tweet from an account would also be able to read previously sent or received messages that had not been deleted.
This would make it likely that some of the world‘s most famous people would have private messages read by hackers still at large. The FBI is investigating the case from its San Francisco office.
Twitter previously said the attackers downloaded data in bulk from eight accounts, none of which were verified accounts with blue checks that included famous people, government officials and some in the media.
The download tool does not provide access to Twitter messages, a spokeswoman said.
For the accounts they had access to, the company said the hackers could have seen phone numbers and email addresses, but not previous passwords.
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