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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was silent as his company’s service descended into bedlam on Wednesday. As critics, commentators and journalists called on Dorsey to do something, hackers romped over the accounts of prominent Americans — including Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — and tweeted out blatant cryptocurrency scams. The corporate accounts of major companies — Apple and Uber — tweeted similar messages. When Twitter got control of an affected account, it didn’t take long for the attackers to wrestle it back.

The company finally settled the situation after resorting to extreme measures: disabling…