Twitter tumbles on concerns about hacking activity

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Twitter tumbles on concerns about hacking activity

Shares fall almost 7 percent.

Twitter shares fell almost 7 percent after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers and, in what appeared to be an unrelated issue, a security firm said hackers used the platform to try to steal user data. Twitter said in a blog that it ...

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