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Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

#51
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...

bug exploit or some kind of inside access

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

#52
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!

Those are both tiny sums anyway.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

#53
post #44

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?

- Uber

- Apple

- Bill Gates

- Elon Musk

- Jeff Bezos

- Joe Biden

- Barack Obama

- Michael Bloomberg

- Kanye West

- Wiz Khalifa

- Bitcoin

- Ripple

- Coinbase

- BINANCE

- CZ_Binance

- Gemini

- Kucoin

- Gate .io

- Coindesk

- Tron

- Justin Sun

- Charlee Lee

That seems like someone got full access to the backend, not the accounts per se.

Also worth mentioning that the tweets get deleted but then they get added and pinned again.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

#54
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!

This one's a bit more up-to-date: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

#56
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!

That explorer probably does not count unconfirmed transactions.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

#59
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Those are both tiny sums anyway.

2.5 BTC = $23,000

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

#60

The attacker already made over 5 BTC: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...

I am not familiar with BTC markets. How would they be able to collect? Wouldn't everyone be watching that wallet like hawk, making it impossible to withdraw without revealing their identity?
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