I'm flabbergasted they haven't just hit the panic button and shut everything down.
Unless, perhaps, they can't.
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#252Your site is getting hacked, you don't know how the hackers are doing it, what do you do ops wise? Take the whole site down for a few hours? Because the entire platform is compromised, how do you handle that?
Yes, of course. Take the site down if you don't have a read only mode or something. You are losing millions in trust every minute this hack goes on.
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#254Elon 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.
It isn't over yet.
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#255I'm flabbergasted they haven't just hit the panic button and shut everything down. Unless, perhaps, they can't.
You mean shutdown Twitter? I think that's a bit extreme in this case.
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#256What blows my mind is how does Twitter not have a "maintenance" mode -- where no new tweets can be posted and the site is essentially read-only?
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#257This doesn't make me feel any better about Bitcoin as a platform/product.
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#258With so many accounts compromised, the hackers might actually have full access to Twitter's backend. The postmortem would be very interesting. I'll be looking forward to it. Imagine if the hackers timed the intrusion during github outage, and twitter's employees can't deploy a fix for the exploit fast enough because github was down!
> Imagine if the hackers timed the intrusion during github outage, and twitter's employees can't deploy a fix for the exploit fast enough because github was down! Is Twitter really using GitHub internally (even self-hosted)?
Is there even a self hosted Github?
AFAIK there is no public offering of the sort.
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#259With so many accounts compromised, the hackers might actually have full access to Twitter's backend. The postmortem would be very interesting. I'll be looking forward to it. Imagine if the hackers timed the intrusion during github outage, and twitter's employees can't deploy a fix for the exploit fast enough because github was down!
Maybe a front end/OAuth issue - those are not uncommon either. Will be interesting to learn more. Also begs the question, who is liable in such cases....
Liable for the account being compromised? Twitter. Liable for people sending money? People sending money.
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#260Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either:
- a test of a new hacking system
- a demonstration to a big client
- a first shot to threat some entity
- a diversion while they get the real loot
And that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it looks like a simple scam.
Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring.