The domain associated with first round of tweets wasn't anonymized.
Could be a setup https://twitter.com/jfbsbnix/status/1283487977591767041
Or maybe a dodge https://twitter.com/verretor/status/1283506654521094146
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#122Elon 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…
Honestly, we should be relieved if thats all that was stolen. A more sophisticated attack would involve OTM puts on TSLA and a tweet along the lines of: "finding major defects in Ys and 3s. shutting down all lines to reconfigure for a week" That could have netted the attackers millions.
"Hacking Elon’s Twitter account and using it for a crypto scam rather than a stock-trading scam shows a complete lack of imagination" - Naval
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#123Elon 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…
Presumably, there was a fake BTC address to go along with that tweet? Otherwise I assume Musk would just return any money...
Haha, I apologise in advance, but for some reason, the tone of your post just made me chuckle. It just had an amusing sort if naivite'. It was most likely the hacker's own BTC address.
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#125Bezos now, too! https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1283508547897171969
Searching for the bitcoin address in twitter gives an absolute ton of results. Are all these accounts hacked, or are people now posting just to joke around?
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#126Should Twitter start supporting cryptographically signed messages? In any case, I wonder about the legal ramifications of this kind of event, for Twitter and for the individuals that have been hacked.
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#127Elon 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…
Honestly, we should be relieved if thats all that was stolen. A more sophisticated attack would involve OTM puts on TSLA and a tweet along the lines of: "finding major defects in Ys and 3s. shutting down all lines to reconfigure for a week" That could have netted the attackers millions.
Or SPX puts, /ES futures, etc and a tweet from a certain political account...
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#128Oh wow, now they're doing multiple tweets/minute: https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
It might make sense for Twitter to redirect all non-retweets of that address to /dev/null (or a sandbox) for a little while.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
One theory is it's a tweet scheduling platform, rather than Twitter itself that was hacked.
No. Clicking into a tweet shows you which app was used to post it. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet#sourc... These tweets are showing up as being posted from the Twitter web interface.
Tweets posted through Twitter's ads platform, even non-ads scheduled tweets, will show up as normal twitter web posts.
And approved partners can use the corresponding API to post this way.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, we should be relieved if thats all that was stolen. A more sophisticated attack would involve OTM puts on TSLA and a tweet along the lines of: "finding major defects in Ys and 3s. shutting down all lines to reconfigure for a week" That could have netted the attackers millions.
Easier to trace, higher monetary investment etc. This they can likely get away with without risk of losing a big investment.
On TSLA? You can probably blend in with all the YOLOers on /r/WSB.