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  • A bunch of billionaires just got hacked on Twitter

    Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Bloomberg, Joe Biden, and a score of others just posted the usual "double your money" bitcoin scam.

    I'm seeing a bunch of conspiracy theories around this, even from otherwise normal/sane people. I also see lots of people scratching their heads about running the scam on all accounts simultaneously, wondering why you wouldn't milk it for max value.

    I think people are way overthinking this. Obviously there must be some vulernability in Twitter itself that got exploited. That means it gets patched in 5 minutes, never to be taken advantage of again. It's like finding a bank vault wide open, but you only get 20 seconds to loot it. There's only so much you can do.

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    it was a hacked employee control panel. source: post in twitter slack.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by sonatine View Post
        it was a hacked employee control panel. source: post in twitter slack.
        Ah, I see. So effectively the same thing: as the "hacker" you know this leak will get plugged almost immediately.

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            Originally posted by SrslySirius View Post

            Ah, I see. So effectively the same thing: as the "hacker" you know this leak will get plugged almost immediately.
            yeah this doesnt sound like a very sophisticated breach, eg i doubt there were any real interesting attempts at persistence.

            like honestly when you consider the money they could have made if they thought this through.... marrrrrone.

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              they have blocked all blue checkmark accounts from tweeting. thats fucking wild.

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                imagine someone having access to trump’s twitter and a 6-7 figure offshore brokerage account

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                  I sincerely hope stephen miller is drafting a tweet for don condemning btc and calling it an outright scam

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by krypt View Post
                    imagine someone having access to trump’s twitter and a 6-7 figure offshore brokerage account
                    With just a little bit of planning....

                    Fucking moron had a golden ticket and he traded it for a plastic whistle.

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                      trumps account was modified when an employee deleted it back in the days; it cannot be accessed through normal administrative means so it wasnt at risk.

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                        insider threat allegedly:

                        https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j...den-uber-bezos

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by sonatine View Post
                          it was a hacked employee control panel. source: post in twitter slack.

                          I went to bed with this rolling around in my head. It reminded me of all the narcos shows I have watched, where people spend all their time burying their money, yet spend zero time planning the "end game". Last night I came up with about 50 ways to have fuck you money if I had access to EM twitter for 5 minutes,and in the big picture, I am semi-retarded. So tilting

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                            "The hackers who took over the Twitter accounts of Joe Biden and Elon Musk may have made off with as much as $120,000 worth of bitcoin — but we may never know for sure"
                            https://www.businessinsider.com/twit...ayments-2020-7

                            $120K and they could been wiping their asses with $100 bills for the rest of their lives. so tilting

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