Twitter announced that the inbox of a Dutch official's account was among 36 other account holders whose inboxes were recently compromised by hackers .
Specifically, lawmaker Geert Wilders said on Thursday that he was notified by Twitter that his account had been compromised by a hacker, who was posting tweets on account and sending messages on their behalf.
As Wilders stated, "the hacker actually also had full access to my DMs, which of course is completely unacceptable in many ways.".
The social media platform suffered a major hack last week that compromised the accounts of some of its most prominent users, including top world leaders, celebrities, and companies. The hack was designed to trick those individuals' Twitter followers into sending money to an anonymous Bitcoin.
Of the 130 accounts investigated, 38 were those whose inboxes were compromised.
"To date, we have no indication that any other former or current elected official has had their DMs breached," the company said via its Twitter Support account.
Wilders said he regained control of his account on July 17 and announced it with a tweet saying "Back on the internet!" with the hashtag #NoMoreHack.
Wilders said his inbox contained messages received during the decade he has been using the social media platform from people critical of Islam or Middle Eastern regimes, including countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
"I hope they will not be in danger if their identity is revealed because of this hack," Wilders said. "I have deleted most of it, but maybe some of it was left there and the hacker saw it and copied it.".
The company previously said the incident was a “coordinated social engineering attack” targeting some of its employees with access to internal systems and tools. They then took control of multiple accounts. The attackers were able to reset passwords for 45 accounts and then log in and tweet from them.
Twitter also confirmed that eight other accounts were hacked, but none of them belonged to any high-profile individuals.
