Twitter bans distribution of hacked materials ahead of US midterm elections

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-bans-distribution-of-hacked-materials-ahead-of-us-midterm-elections/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
October 2, 2018

Twitter has made three major changes to its site rules in an attempt to 
prevent foreign actors from using its platform to meddle in the upcoming 
US midterm elections, but also to cut down on the amount of spam and abuse 
going on on the platform.

The first of these three changes concerns the dissemination of hacked 
materials on the platform.

Twitter already had rules in place that prohibited the distribution of 
hacked materials that contain private information or trade secrets, but 
after Monday's update, the platform's review teams will also ban accounts 
that claim responsibility for a hack, make hacking threats, or issue 
incentives to hack specific people and accounts.

Until now, the platform has --for unknown reasons-- left hackers' accounts 
alone, rarely intervening to take one down, and usually only after 
requests from law enforcement officials.

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