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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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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?

There are many exchanges and services where you can sell BTC for XMR (Monero) without revealing your identity. And with Monero you cannot trace addresses or transactions.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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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…

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.

That's way riskier though. There's a reason they are using BTC.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Uber has been hacked as well. At this point, they can get any high profile Twitter user. EDIT: You know this is a coordinated Twitter hack when they have Apple's account hacked [0]. https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

I feel like we already knew this when Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Uber has been hacked as well. At this point, they can get any high profile Twitter user. EDIT: You know this is a coordinated Twitter hack when they have Apple's account hacked [0]. https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

They haven't yet gone after the most prominent Twitter user.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Uber has been hacked as well. At this point, they can get any high profile Twitter user. EDIT: You know this is a coordinated Twitter hack when they have Apple's account hacked [0]. https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

They haven't yet gone after the most prominent Twitter user.

That's one of the few accounts that might get you drone striked for messing with. It may stay safe.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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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…

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.

It would be also much easier to track. Significant gains this way would not go unnoticed.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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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.

God, imagine them declaring war on China from Trump’s Twitter...
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