> At least some of the compromised accounts have multi-factor authentication enabled, including CoinDesk's.
Interesting. I wonder if it was a SMS hack, and if not, then a new kind of vulnerability?
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#22Headline seems pretty editorialized.
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#23Pics of tweets: https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/128350208126595072...
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#24No Trump?
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#25Place your bets, phishing or bug exploit. Some of these targets are too high profile to all fall for it and probably have teams that manage these accounts securely. Edit: 2fa was bypassed, interesting. https://twitter.com/tylerwinklevoss/status/12834920178892595...
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#26A clear use case of Blockchain for the cryptocurrency detractors \s
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#27So many accounts are affected, this seems to be a system-level hack rather than a compromise of individual accounts. Someone has found a way to post a tweet from any account they like?
Some folks are saying some of these accounts had 2FA, so can be the case but I guess if it was a system thing, we might have seen tweets from more prominent accounts.
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#28This is looking really bad, I wonder what they used to get access to all these high-profile accounts?
It's worth noting these types of blackhat crypto scammers make millions a year from this already, but this is definitely making it a lot worse.
EDIT: Still going on after 30+ minutes, seeing people like Bill Gates tweet crypto scams still. Amazed they got all the crypto exchange too.
And it's not just Bitcoin, they got RIpple too and posted XRP addresses.
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#29So many accounts are affected, this seems to be a system-level hack rather than a compromise of individual accounts. Someone has found a way to post a tweet from any account they like?
You would think they would do something with Trump if it was arbitrary accounts. But maybe his has additional protections
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#30So many accounts are affected, this seems to be a system-level hack rather than a compromise of individual accounts. Someone has found a way to post a tweet from any account they like?
One theory is it's a tweet scheduling platform, rather than Twitter itself that was hacked.