Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by megadeth » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:30 PM UTC

Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
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Post by monokh » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:22 PM UTC

This must be a twitter exploit. Just too many high profile accounts have been pushing out scams at the same time.

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Post by bayesianbot » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:23 PM UTC

Lots and lots of crypto accounts hacked. Either Twitter is hacked or some automated tweeting system has a 0day.

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Post by abigger87 » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

https://gifyu.com/image/QrnS

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Post by megadeth » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:30 PM UTC

Top crypto currency accounts compromised

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Post by a-wu » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:32 PM UTC

With the way that Elon tweets normally, someone could have done a lot of damage before anyone realized. Luckily markets have closed already.

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Post by iamben » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:32 PM UTC

Elon Musk as well. Tweets still up, saying "Feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address!

You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes."

As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC.

Edit: Just seen @BillGates compromised as well, same bitcoin account.

Edit 2: Elon's tweet seems to be getting removed, and then reposted again shortly after. About $40k sent so far.

Edit 3: Interesting to watch - on both accounts, tweets seem to be deleted and then reappear as pinned a few mins later.

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Post by dvaun » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

There's a Web Archive link[0] for anyone curious.

It looks like this was pretty successful for the hacker. At the time of writing they received ~3.1 BTC, or ~$29k in USD[1].

Edit: Replaced [1] with a site that appeared to have less trackers according to Privacy Badger.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200715202030/https://twitter.c...

[1]: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...

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Post by etaioinshrdlu » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

Partial list of hacked accounts here, https://twitter.com/Justin12393LEE/status/128349844588658688...

Mentions: - Bitcoin - Coinbase - BINANCE - CZ_Binance - Gemini - Kucoin - Gate .io - Coindesk - Tron - Justin Sun - Charlee Lee

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Post by Nextgrid » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 8:38 PM UTC

bayesianbot wrote: post #3

Lots and lots of crypto accounts hacked. Either Twitter is hacked or some automated tweeting system has a 0day.

My bet is on some kind of client/marketing platform that all these accounts gave write permission to.

Edit: I stand corrected, many other comments mention that the offending tweets appear to be posted from the web app, so this suggests an issue within Twitter itself.