Twitter warns of suspicious traffic coming from China Russia

(Reuters) Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) 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 discovered suspicious traffic to a customer-support forum while investigating a security bug that exposed data including users phone country codes and details on locked accounts. It said the bug was fixed Nov. 16. Twitter observed a large amount of traffic to the customer support site coming from individual internet IP addresses in China and Saudi Arabia. While we cannot confirm intent or attribution for certain it is possible that some of these IP addresses may have ties to state-sponsored actors" the blog said.