@bitburner Here is the text version:
1/ Here is a description of what went down according to someone with far greater technical knowledge than me:
"so a group of developers latched onto the Press Release that Twilio put out at midnight last night. In that Press Release, Twilio
2/ accidentally revealed which services Parler was using. Turns out it was all of the security authentications that were used to register a user. This allowed anyone to create a user, and not have to verify an email address, and immediately have a logged-on account.
Well,
3/ because of that access, it gave them access to the behind the login box API that is used to
deliver content -- ALL CONTENT (parleys, video, images, user profiles, user information, etc) -. But what it also did was revealed which USERS had "Administration" rights,
4/ "Moderation" rights.
Well, then what happened, those user accounts that had Administration rights to the entire platform... The hackers, internet warriors, call it what you will, was able to use the forgot password link to change the password. Why? Because Twilio was no
5/ longer authenticating emails. This meant, they'd get directly to the reset password screen of that Administration user.
This group of Internet Warriors then used that account, to create a handful of other ADMINISTRATION accounts, and then created a script that ended up