Twitter黑客可能因可能违反FTC协议而被罚款

在美国前总统奥巴马和亚马逊公司首席执行官Jeff Bezos等多个备受瞩目的账户被黑客攻击后，Twitter公司可能面临美国监管机构的巨额罚款。据知情人士透露，美国联邦贸易委员会（The Federal Trade Commission）将审查Twitter是否违反了2010年的一项和解协议（2009年推特也发生过同样的黑客事件，该协议曾用于解决该公司在上次黑客事件中未能保护消费者信息的指控）。FTC协议可持续20年，所以还没有过期，这意味着FTC委员会还是有机会可以审查Twitter是否违反了协议，也可以审查Twitter是否在安全保护方面误导消费者，但是FTC无权对欺骗消费者的公司进行罚款，但可以提出起诉。FTC主席乔-西蒙斯在2018年告诉参议院，当一家公司出现数据泄露的消息时，"那么我们就会关注它，并对其进行研究与审核。" "我确信FTC会调查此事，"该机构前首席技术专家Ashkan Soltani说，他曾帮助领导对包括Twitter在内的公司进行调查。Soltani表示，FTC想要调查黑客事件是如何发生的，以及Twitter是否有具有足够的安全性。

Twitter Inc. may face a large fine from U.S. regulators after a hack of several high-profile accounts including former President Barack Obama and Amazon.com Inc.  The Federal Trade Commission will review whether Twitter violated a 2010 settlement that resolved allegations that the company failed to safeguard consumer information in a 2009 hack, according to a person familiar with the matter. The 2009 incident, like the recent one, involved phony tweets from some accounts, including then President-elect Obama’s.“As Yogi Berra used to say, this is déjà vu all over again,” said David Vladeck, a Georgetown University law professor who was director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection at the time of the earlier hack settlement. The commission could start a new investigation or bring a complaint against Twitter for violating the terms of its existing agreement, Vladeck said. The FTC agreement lasts 20 years, which gives the commission an opening to scrutinize whether Twitter violated the pact by misleading consumers about its security protections. The FTC doesn’t have authority to fine companies for deceiving consumers unless the company is already subject to an existing settlement. The agency last year approved a record $5 billion privacy settlement with Facebook Inc. to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. That fine stemmed from Facebook’s failure to comply with an earlier agreement with the agency. Chairman Joe Simons told the Senate in 2018 that when there is news of a data breach at a company, “then we are concerned about it and we are looking at it.” “I’m sure that the FTC will look into it,” said Ashkan Soltani, former chief technologist for the agency who helped lead investigations into companies including Twitter. Soltani said the FTC would want to know how the hack happened and whether Twitter had adequate security.  source

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emm标题是不是起错啦 应该是Twitter被罚款而不是Twitter黑客被罚款吧

我以为是注册twitter的黑客被罚款了。