The attacker already made over 5 BTC: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
Seems like a very paltry sum compared to other ways they could have capitalized on market-moving tweets.
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#82Still going on. https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 What a disaster this stuff. Wonder how it was done.
Seems they’re cashing in. According to one tweet, $7.8m transferred to their address so far.
The responses to that tweet say it is fake and the real number is only 6BTC (~$50k).
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#83Elon 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.
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#84Still going on. https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 What a disaster this stuff. Wonder how it was done.
Seems they’re cashing in. According to one tweet, $7.8m transferred to their address so far.
https://www.blockchain.com/it/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtz...
According to this, 6.1 BTC, which is around 56k USD
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#85So 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?
The email address associated with the account(s) appear to have been changed as well: https://twitter.com/sniko_/status/1283485972286656517
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#86All of Apple's tweets are gone https://twitter.com/Apple
they just posted the scam there...
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#87Elon 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.
Easier to trace, higher monetary investment etc. This they can likely get away with without risk of losing a big investment.
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#88All Apple Tweets are now deleted
https://twitter.com/apple and now one scam alone https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900
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#89Apple too: https://imgur.com/ZvPshMX.jpg
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#90Elon 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.
Oh god. Nightmare fuel