Twitter says hackers saw direct messages from 36 accounts, including an elected official in the Netherlands

• Hackers gained access to the direct messages of 36 accounts, Twitter said Wednesday.
• One of the accounts belonged to an elected official in the Netherlands.
• Twitter previously said the attackers tweeted from 45 "verified" accounts, including those belonging to such well-known names as CEOs Elon Musk and Bill Gates and former Vice President Joe Biden.
• Twitter previously said that the attackers downloaded mass data from eight accounts, none of them the verified accounts with blue checks that include famous people, officials and some in the media.
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Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 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 the private messages of any other elected officials were obtained.

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