Twilio employees tricked, customer details exposed

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The attackers pretended to be Twilio's IT department
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The attackers pretended to be Twilio's IT department

The attackers phished employees with warnings their passwords had expired

Cloud communications provider Twilio says threat actors were able to access some of its customers' data, after a successful social engineering attack led some employees to share their login credent...

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