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What makes you think they don’t? We had one on Reddit in 2008.
Because if there ever was a moment to press that button, it would be now. Thousands of accounts are still tweeting that BTC address.
Edit: There we go. https://twitter.com/JacKnutson/status/1283527213606789121
Twitter is seriously out of control. They should have pulled the plug an hour ago, and that plug pulling should have been automated. If this were something even more sinister a whole country could have plummeted into chaos, death, destruction.
Seriously, this hack should inspire the most terrifying Black Mirror episode yet.
Simultaneous compromise leading to tens or hundreds of millions of people receiving the same / similar messages for over an hour from the people they trust the most.
Death and destruction waiting to happen.
Elon 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.
Considering execution, it may be that this is some API 0day which does not show (or make it hard to guess) which account messages are being posted from. How else would you explain neutral messages for all account when you could've personalised it per account to maximize efficiency.
Given 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.
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What makes you think they don’t? We had one on Reddit in 2008.
Because if there ever was a moment to press that button, it would be now. Thousands of accounts are still tweeting that BTC address.
What's so horrible about a few more?
With 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!
Did the hackers remove all tweets from Apple? Wtf
Watch this turns out to be a JS dependency tree problem from some library that was compromised months ago in some NPM module, used in the twitter web interface.
I love this theory, but at the same time, I feel that it's unlikely. Without knowing how their back-end is put together, that'd be like... trying to smuggle in a robot into an office building to break into a safe that's inside without knowing the floor plan, what kind of knobs are on the doors, etc.