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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
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#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searching for the bitcoin address in twitter gives an absolute ton of results. Are all these accounts hacked, or are people now posting just to joke around?
Love how they don't just ban the bitcoin address. Firehose big data my ass. No one at home at Twitter.
I'm really shocked that attacker of so much sophisticated attack, haven't generate unique bitcoin address per tweet.
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#413Imagine for a moment that this ends up being something state-sponsored or that twitters entire DB gets dumped, private accounts and all.
This could have a profound impact on governments who want to target dissidents if somebody for example, only felt comfortable criticizing their government from a protected account...
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#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean shutdown Twitter? I think that's a bit extreme in this case.
Imagine if the hacker was a bit more nefarious and hacked Trump's account to say he was launching a first strike attack against Iran or on Musk's account saying he was halting Model S production due to battery defect. The real world ramifications could be immense.
One of those is order of magnitude worse than the other.
...I really hope Musk is keeping his account secure.
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#415Seems like they reposted it on the cash app account. This time it’s a different address.
New Address: bc1qwr30ddc04zqp878c0evdrqfx564mmf0dy2w9l https://mobile.twitter.com/CashApp/status/128352200769559757....
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Why would you do that?
curiosity value > fractional bitcoin value
It's also validates the scam for other users. When they see BTC being sent they are more likely to think it is genuine. I can see sending dust to track the coins but other than that it's a damn foolish idea.
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#417Expect POTUS to go to DEFCON 1 and seize control of Twitter any second now.
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#418Elon 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…
> As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC. Fool and his money are soon parted.
To be fair this does seem like something Elon would do
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#419This is what happens when you put all of your communication eggs into a single basket. Twitter needed to be taken down a couple of pegs. I think accounts of a high enough profile may want to closely examine the ActivityPub ecosystem.
We had a decentralized system before. It was called the mainstream medias.
But they lost so much trust from the public that now we turn to social medias.
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#420Given 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.
>Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring. lol tons of ppl have been scammed. If by 'little' you means hundreds of k. In some Eastern European country that can last a lifetime.
That's pennies compared to what a compromise like this would be worth...