Following the sensational event of stealing the personal accounts of celebrities, another scandal has involved Twitter, through which it is alleged that the platform has spied on the accounts of celebrities, including Beyoncé.

According to a report by Bloomberg (via The Verge), around 1,500 Twitter employees and contractors have been monitoring users' accounts, including access to personal data, including phone numbers, email addresses and addresses. IP.

According to Bloomberg, in 2017 and 2018, some social network contractors created some fake questions ostensibly about account security and through them managed to access the accounts of celebrities. A former employee told Bloomberg that these intrusions were frequent and the company could not fully track them, which raises the alarm about the privacy breach.

The report follows the scandal in mid-July, when the Twitter account - including that of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, former president Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West - Tesla CEO Elon Musk - were stolen in an attempt to achieve a bitcoin (electronic currency) fraud.

A Twitter spokesman said the issue was being looked at carefully. Some of the accounts that were stolen, in addition to being verified, also had the two-factor security option set, which is supposed to make it more difficult to steal such a profile. Since the beginning of 2018, hackers have created fake accounts claiming to be Elon Musk, Donald Trump and other celebrities, to trick individuals into sending bitcoins, or other forms of cryptocurrencies in the form of an investment, with the promise that they will double and triple their money later.