Do we think scammers also have access to the hacked account’s DMs?
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
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#262Elon 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.
Couldn't market-traded options be rolled back in the event of a hack, though?
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#263About $110k in the address. Honestly not that impressive for a hack of this scale. I wonder what they could have gotten if they reported this for a bug bounty instead.
Or as Matt Levine said, "if I got Elon Musk's twitter password I'd wait until market hours to use it."
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#264Still going on. https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 What a disaster this stuff. Wonder how it was done.
It's amusing that the tweets keep coming, get deleted, reappear, get deleted... I can't help but imagine how any account on twitter would be safe if the Bill Gates', Elon Musk's, and top crypto site's Twitters are compromised.
Pretty safe to assume they are all compromised until there is proof to the contrary.
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#265Uber 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
I feel like we already knew this when Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked.
I thought that vulnerability was due to the now-deprecated Tweet by Phone integration and SIM swaps?
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#267I'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.
The hackers are changing the login information of the hacked accounts too, gonna require a massive amount of cleanup.
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#268Elon 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.
My crazy theory: the real attack is on the Twitter stock price and the bitcoin is a distraction.
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#269I'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.
It's not too hyperbolic to say that WW3 could be started on a platform like Twitter. Having a "shutdown" button doesn't seem that extreme when essentially the entire site seems to be compromised. I'd bet my bottom dollar that Congressional hearings are going to happen.
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#270I'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.
I don’t, they can say anything posing as anyone and the general public will believe it, this is a genuine hazard. Seriously, if I were them I’d pull the plug until this is fixed.