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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Loads of accounts still tweeting it in realtime. Follow it live: https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...

https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...

Added "filter:verified" to query

Edit: Add @JoeBiden to the list.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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post #125

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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?

Love how they don't just ban the bitcoin address. Firehose big data my ass. No one at home at Twitter.

Ban from where? Twitter you mean? I guess they could write something to block Bitcoin addresses that are scams from the body of the tweets.

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post #94
post #76

Uber has been hacked as well. At this point, they can get any high profile Twitter user. EDIT: You know this is a coordinated Twitter hack when they have Apple's account hacked [0]. https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

They haven't yet gone after the most prominent Twitter user.

Yeah, I bet they're too stupid to be able to do it.

(He said, taunting the hackers.)

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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post #76

Uber has been hacked as well. At this point, they can get any high profile Twitter user. EDIT: You know this is a coordinated Twitter hack when they have Apple's account hacked [0]. https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

Joe Biden, too

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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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.

It would be also much easier to track. Significant gains this way would not go unnoticed.

Are you sure? TSLA is the most shorted stock in the US. I think it would be easy to blend in with the crowd.
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