Twitter Accidentally Spams Emails that Asked the User to Confirm their Twitter Account!

On Thursday, Twitter created quite a panic situation, they accidentally send emails to the users while confirming their account, which looks like a phishing attack.

The organization mistakenly send emails to the users at 10 PM EST, these emails contain the subject of verifying your email account exactly “Confirm your Twitter Account” and also attached a “Confirm Now” button. However, the email looks genuine but no one expects these types of emails from the Twitter side.

Twitter Accidentally Spams Emails that Asked the User to Confirm their Twitter Account!

According to the expert’s multiple users report it as a phishing attack and they are posting it on Twitter the message contains that: Phishing Scam Alert Delete the email. But according to the investigation, this is not a phishing attack, apparently, Twitter accidentally sends emails confirming the user account.

Twitter Accidentally Spams Emails that Asked the User to Confirm their Twitter Account!

After some time the organization also sends a tweet which contains that; “Some of the users have received an email while confirm your twitter account that you were not expecting at this time. These emails were accidentally send and we are sorry for that.”

Twitter Accidentally Spams Emails that Asked the User to Confirm their Twitter Account!

The organization also said that in case you received one of these types of emails, then you don’t need to confirm your account and you can easily disregard the message and for those who are not aware of this situation yet. They can simply ignore this email or delete it.

However, phishing attacks are rapidly increasing therefore the users may think that this all is a scam. Whereas, last month an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said that Australia’s business lost more than AU$14 million in phishing and other scams.

Although in 2019, more than 25000 phishing scans were reported that compromised around 513 businesses which are valued at about AU$2.5 billion which is the largest amount reported yet.

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