A Dutch elected official is among those whose DMs were hijacked, the company said. 36 of 130 high-profile accounts were hacked in an unprecedented account breach last week, Twitter confirmed Wednesday. The FBI is said to be taking the lead in the investigation due to the massive privacy, legislative and business ramifications of the incident. Twitter continues to actively work to contact account holders with updates as the situation unfolds, the social media giant said in a late update to the hack in which they said hackers downloaded an archive of Your Twitter Data from eight of the accounts.
Source: https://threatpost.com/twitter-hackers-private-messages-elite-accounts/157657/