Is there any way I could prove that I was a victim of this crime?
Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
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#172> "Washington DC Field Office Cyber Crimes Unit analyzed the blockchain and de-anonymized bitcoin transactions allowing for the identification of two different hackers"
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[cost of compliance] > [revenue from EU visitors]
And I don't blame the site at all. Another stupid rule from the EU preventing me from reading articles.
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#174Wasn't there inside help? I read several articles saying that there was. Any of those insiders charged?
Twitter is in a bind. If there was no inside help, that says their security is pretty lax. If there was inside help, why have they not identified or named them.
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#176Hold on... how could they have de-anonymized the blockchain transactions? That seems.. false
Bitcoin is a public blockchain, there are various blockchain analytic firms such as Elliptic/Chainalysis that offer bitcoin tracing services.
Bitcoin is not private nor anonymous, the rise of blockchain surveillance is why privacy coins like Monero are gaining in popularity.
That being said, I'm sure it wasn't solely BTC transactions, these guys seemed to have very poor op-sec for performing such a big hack.
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#178I personally lost $6000 dollars, is there any way I could prove that I was a victim and get my crypto back?
I don’t mean to be rude, but I have to ask - what were you thinking?
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#179Hitting a 17yo with 30 felony charges feels a bit steep to me. Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in the world? If a 17yo could do it, I'm sure a nation state could do it.
> Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in the world?
Is the suggestion that if your security is weak, at least some of the blame goes to the hacked? If your home security is weak, should we grant more leniency to a burglar? The insurance company should be the one to punish the riskiness of homeowner security.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Florida has some of the most permissive laws about mugshots and criminal info. The reason for the "Florida Man" meme is not that people in Florida are more weird than anywhere else, just that it's easier to find the mugshots online.
I grew up in Florida. It's not just easier to find mug shots online. It's a weird place. Alligators: https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/florida-man-fights-off-alligat... https://nypost.com/2018/07/30/florida-man-brings-gator-into-... https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/8-foot-gator-wrestled-from... Pythons: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/2019/08/12/6-foo... https://www.foxnews.com/science/alligator-fights-pytho…
Those aren't particularly weird. People chopping off their limbs in copy-cat insurance scams is weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_Florida
For over a hundred years kooks and scammers from the Northeast and Midwest have made their way down to Florida. It's a weird place because weird and disreputable people move there. (Source: I grew up in the panhandle, and also inherited some "beach front" property in the middle of the woods that an uncle bought in the 1960s from a Chicago developer front running a classic Florida real estate racket. Also, see "Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country".)