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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Re: Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Post by stri8ed »

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #11

man who falls for this stuff. i've been seeing "send me money to this account to get double that" scam for like 20 years, its hard to believe there are people who still don't know better.

I think they could have done a lot better by having Elon tweet out a new product preorder page (limited edition Tesla merch?), which accepts payments in crypto. Really anything other than give me X so I can give you 2X, which has been done to death already. 100k is chump change, historically for this class of scam.

Another idea is, hijack customer service request DM's from crypto exchanges, and lead customer to phishing login page. Perhaps could athorize API access to the account, and then change email back to original, without the owner realizing account breach.

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

spir wrote: post #67

Is it generally known that this hack was live for at least a few days, not just Wednesday? I personally saw one of the official @elonmusk scam tweets earlier this week.

I've been seeing similar scams in Elon's replies, they just copy his profile picture and name and reply with a different account. You might have seen that one

Re: Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Post by danso »

thinkloop wrote: post #52
danso wrote: post #37

> “This is NOT a method, you will be given a full refund if for any reason you aren’t given the email/@, however if it is revered/suspended I will not be held accountable,” Chaewon wrote in their sales thread, which was titled “Pulling email for any Twitter/Taking Requests.” If access were being sold via message board, I wonder if the thread contains stipulations on which accounts are off-limits for being hacked. My…

Obama and Biden are part of it

Neither Obama nor Biden nor Bloomberg are "active government officials". They have no power to conduct U.S. government business, thus an intrusion on their private social media accounts is not going to be an obvious or immediate threat to the security of the U.S. government.

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Post by spir »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #72
spir wrote: post #67

Is it generally known that this hack was live for at least a few days, not just Wednesday? I personally saw one of the official @elonmusk scam tweets earlier this week.

I've been seeing similar scams in Elon's replies, they just copy his profile picture and name and reply with a different account. You might have seen that one

I am used to spotting cryptocurrency scams. The tweet I saw was from his official account, days before the "Wednesday hack".

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Post by etaioinshrdlu »

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #11

man who falls for this stuff. i've been seeing "send me money to this account to get double that" scam for like 20 years, its hard to believe there are people who still don't know better.

The funny thing is you could create an ethereum smart contract that verifiably will double any money you send to it, and send it back, at least until its own funding pile runs out.

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Post by danso »

paulpauper wrote: post #56
danso wrote: post #37

> “This is NOT a method, you will be given a full refund if for any reason you aren’t given the email/@, however if it is revered/suspended I will not be held accountable,” Chaewon wrote in their sales thread, which was titled “Pulling email for any Twitter/Taking Requests.” If access were being sold via message board, I wonder if the thread contains stipulations on which accounts are off-limits for being hacked. My…

it is possible trump account had a special measure in place to override the email reset to make it hack-proof.

What about Reps. Nancy Pelosi or AOC, both of whom are extremely visible and active politicians, and who draw similar kinds of ire as Obama/Biden?

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Post by untog »

paulpauper wrote: post #68
TechBro8615 wrote: post #23

This is the most important point: > Also, it seems clear that this Twitter hack could have let the attackers view the direct messages of anyone on Twitter, information that is difficult to put a price on but which nevertheless would be of great interest to a variety of parties, from nation states to corporate spies and blackmailers. My understanding is the hackers used the admin panel to change the email addresses of…

>> Also, it seems clear that this Twitter hack could have let the attackers view the direct messages of anyone on Twitter, information that is difficult to put a price on but which nevertheless would be of great interest to a variety of parties, from nation states to corporate spies and blackmailers. It is not as much money as pundits probably think it is worth. And also, trying to negotiate a blackmail is time consu…

> Do you really think someone like elon musk will pay a bitcoin ransom assuming there is anything incriminating?

Maybe? I mean I certainly don't dismiss the idea out of hand. The one strong counter-argument I can think of is that very few things would actually embarrass Musk at this point.

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Post by amatecha »

blisseyGo wrote: post #69

I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was. Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value: Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMV https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23... This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies,…

It's almost as if web services that let people post whatever they want at any time, vulnerable to whatever security flaws may be present, shouldn't be used as a reliable source for up-to-the-minute information about literally anything important at all.

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Post by cgy1 »

d1str0 wrote: post #53
paulpauper wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that may have been an ad. scammers are buying youtube ads too

Ive seen what this previous poster has talked about. They overlay graphics in the actual video stream promoting btc payments. Happened with a Nasa stream right after the first spacex manned mission.

Me too. Youtube even put it in my recommended section.
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