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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
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#32This is going to be a hilarious postmortem. If we ever see it.
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#33Some reports that this was related to compromised OAuth tokens. How would someone know and what is the source of the compromise? A third party app that all of these accounts use?
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#34Place 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...
Sounds like an exploit. The article says that some of the accounts were confirmed to have multi-factor authentication enabled.
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#35Place 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...
Reminds me of the iCloud phishing hack, a lot of high profile celebrities were hacked that time.
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#36Still going on. https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 What a disaster this stuff. Wonder how it was done.
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#37also all @apple tweets have been deleted lol
the hacker already got 6 BTC!
this is crazy.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tweet is down now, but still in Google's cache.
BillGates tweet is now down, within the last minute.
I still see it as a "pinned tweet"
https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907
(Now gone @ 3:32p Pacific)
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#39So 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?
Might be a third party client, browser extension, insider threat... not necessarily a compromise of the Twitter backend.
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#40The wallet that the hacker who got Elon posted has been given 5.7 BTC and counting: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...