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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by monokh »

ortusdux wrote: post #50
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.

They do often supply some coins to themselves to create the illusion that there is activity.

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Post by bogdanu »

ortusdux wrote: post #50
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.

I few weeks ago I saw two with 50k each...

Google has to step up it's game because their platforms aren't safe anymore.

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Post by kbenson »

jacquesm wrote: post #36

Still going on. https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 What a disaster this stuff. Wonder how it was done.

Partially because it's twitter, I'm completely unable to determine if the responses are hacked accounts, joking, or actual people that sent money.

I suspect the actual numbers and percentages of the whole of each would be surprising...

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Post by nathancahill »

a3r0 wrote: post #29
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?

You would think they would do something with Trump if it was arbitrary accounts. But maybe his has additional protections

I believe I read something (trying to find it) about Twitter internally having additional protections on Trump's account. Only a handful of people within Twitter can touch it.

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Post by 2arrs2ells »

danso wrote: post #21

> At least some of the compromised accounts have multi-factor authentication enabled, including CoinDesk's. Interesting. I wonder if it was a SMS hack, and if not, then a new kind of vulnerability?

Is there a way to pin a tweet via SMS? I don't think so... and these tweets are getting pinned.

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Post by Reedx »

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'm amazed that accounts at the scale of Elon and Bill Gates weren't locked down within moments. They've been reposting these for at least 30 minutes.

What is going on that Twitter didn't get them locked ASAP?

Also all of Apple's tweets deleted, and now posting the bitcoin thing as well: https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

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