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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by curiousgal »

iamben wrote: post #7

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…

Where did you get the 2.5BTC number from?

It's more like 1.3BTC by looking up the address on their website.

https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wl...

Edit: I stand corrected. Holy crap!

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by Tenoke »

shiado wrote: post #25

Place 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...

The leaked credentials of an employee at a tweet scheduling service theory sounds more plausible to me on the face of it.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by tqkxzugoaupvwqr »

Reason077 wrote: post #17

So 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?

Suggestion on Twitter is a third-party app that has write access to the accounts was compromised.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by css »

whoisjuan wrote: post #18

Whoever hacked Twitter today definitely got major access to their backend: https://twitter.com/whoisjuan/status/1283502962103455744?s=2...

> Whoever hacked @Twitter today definitely got major access to their backend

Is there any proof Twitter was hacked and not just these two accounts?

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by jrv »

Tenoke wrote: post #42
shiado wrote: post #25

Place 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...

The leaked credentials of an employee at a tweet scheduling service theory sounds more plausible to me on the face of it.

Wouldn't Twitter have locked the affected accounts by now then?

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by NocturnalWaffle »

curiousgal wrote: post #41
iamben wrote: post #7

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…

Where did you get the 2.5BTC number from? It's more like 1.3BTC by looking up the address on their website. https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wl... Edit: I stand corrected. Holy crap!

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...

5.9BTC now

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by ortusdux »

iamben wrote: post #7

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…

I've seen several live streams on youtube that replay spacex launches and display the same offer. Viewership goes up during actual launches. The one I found had 10k active viewers and the address they linked to had brought in 2btc in under an hour.
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