Twitter just suffered the biggest cyber-attack in its history. But is it being set up for something bigger? 

When a Twitter employee or employees—wittingly or unwittingly, it is still not clear—provided hackers with access to the company’s internal computer dashboard, they gave hackers a window to hijack dozens of prominent Twitter accounts to launch a Bitcoin scam.

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...