Twitter suspends tweets via SMS after hacking the account of its executive director

Twitter network users will no longer be able to send SMS tweets as long as the social network does not solve the ruling that allowed the brief hacking of the account of its executive director, Jack Dorsey, last Friday.

That function has been temporarily suspended, Twitter said on the network itself. "We will reactivate it soon in countries that need SMS," the company said in a series of messages and "we will rethink our long-term strategy for that option."

Dorsey, one of the co-founders of the social network, was the victim of a hacking SIM card In such attacks, pirates manage to transfer their victim's mobile number to another phone.

Once that goal is achieved, hackers can impersonate their victim, both on social networks and in their online bank account.

The pirates use the double authentication system that consists of verifying the identity of the users by means of a password and a unique code sent by SMS.

"We take this measure due to the failures that telephone operators must repair and our dependence on the telephone number in the double authentication system," Twitter added.

That type of hacking has increased over time. After the theft of a large amount of private data in recent years, hackers have access, in the black internet market, to numerous personal information that allows them to later deceive operators.

"Mobile messaging can be hacked with sophisticated technical means, but also as easily as convincing an operator to transfer an account to another, on an unauthorized telephone," explains R. David Edelman, a former House advisor Blanca who runs a cybersecurity research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"It only takes a few minutes of confusion to commit a crime like the one that affected Dorsey," he says.