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[ManaByte]

High-profile Twitter accounts simultaneously hacked to spread crypto scam

The scammers have raised $20,000 — and rising — in less than an hour.

techcrunch.com

 

[cryptoadam]

Don't trust this scam.

Just give me your wallet address and I will do the real refund. Send along you SSN and ID just for proves sake OK.

 

[iconmaster]

If I believed in bitcoin, I might have been in trouble today!

 

[dottme]

One one side, the scam is pretty obvious.
No-one is going to fall for it, if you take time to think a little before acting ....

 

[Falcs]

Good. Fuck twitter!

 

[ManaByte]

One one side, the scam is pretty obvious.
No-one is going to fall for it, if you take time to think a little before acting ....

People are falling for it. The scammers have made over $100K already.

 

[Falcs]

One one side, the scam is pretty obvious.
No-one is going to fall for it, if you take time to think a little before acting ....

Stupid people gonna stupid.

 

[plasmasd]

2020 keeps delivering. Now delete Twitter from existence please

 

[Falcs]

How the fuck are people just clever enough to know how to use and trade bitcoin, yet also so fucking stupid they can't tell this is a scam?

 

[J-Roderton]

They hit all of these accounts at the same time?

 

[ManaByte]

Apparently Biden just got hit.

 

[ManaByte]

Elon hit again.

This is like whack a mole.

 

[brap]

Elon hit again.

This is like whack a mole.

Stay safe fam. Don't want you getting hacked.

 

[ManaByte]

CNN is getting lubed up and ready in case Trump gets hit.

TRUMP TWEETS BITCOIN SCAM: IMPEACHABLE?

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

They hit all of these accounts at the same time?

Well, of course.

Gotta get max exposure to trick the followers to send coins.
If you spread it out, the bug will be fixed and people get aware.

Looking forward to twitters post mortem

 

[Tesseract]

rekt

 

[ManaByte]

 

[brap]

haha WOW lole

 

[Ellery]

Ok Wendy's wins lol. This is so good

 

[Tesseract]

haha WOW lole

maybe they put dave in the chili

 

[TTOOLL]

I hope this is the beginning of Twitter's demise.

 

[Tesseract]

I hope this is the beginning of Twitter's demise.

 

[TrainedRage]

One hand, I don't give a shit about super rich people losing a tiny bit of money.

Other hand, will this effect Tesla stock?

 

[Honey Bunny]

jack whats a 0 day attack

 

[newtypepilot]

How the fuck are people just clever enough to know how to use and trade bitcoin, yet also so fucking stupid they can't tell this is a scam?

greed lowers intelligence by about 100 IQ

 

[JORMBO]

 

[ManaByte]

 

[TTOOLL]

This is HUGE, no joke.

 

[ipukespiders]

If I was able to hack all these high profile accounts, I would come up with something a little better.

 

[DKehoe]

Could be some interesting stuff in those DMs.

 

[brap]

If I was able to hack all these high profile accounts, I would come up with something a little better.

I'd just post my cock

 

[DragoonKain]

Incoming Trump tweet:

"Sleepy Joe being compromised on Twitter should be no surprise, he's already compromised his ethics to the far left! If you can't trust him with a Twitter account, how can you trust him protecting the country?! The hackers know not to mess with my account or there will be dire consequences!"

 

[ManaByte]

If I was able to hack all these high profile accounts, I would come up with something a little better.

Get access to Trump's account and say you're launching nukes immediately.

 

[YCoCg]

Weird how they're not targeting Trump.

 

[JORMBO]

Twitter people seem to think this whole thing is being done by Trump since he hasn’t been hacked yet.

 

[Taxexemption]

It's actually really clever. I could believe that rich people would do something like this for pr or otherwise to make sure people are paying close attention to them in case they do it again.

 

[Rentahamster]

Weird how they're not targeting Trump.

Not really. There's many potential reasons why some accounts are affected and others not. These reasons can rage from technical to personal.

 

[iconmaster]

Weird how they're not targeting Trump.

Nobody would ever believe in Trump giving away money.

 

[caffeware]

It’s an authentication bug, not Db access so don’t all rush to change your passwords.

Whatever this means.

 

[Xyrmellon]

It's not just high profile accounts. Hundreds if not thousands of accounts are being hacked, alot of non blue checkmarks.

 

[Sub_Level]

Attention all Nintendo gamers:

Mario is in trouble. To defeat Bowser and rescue the princess, he's gonna need to buy some 1ups and powerups. Please PM me the sixteen digits on your mom's credit card, the expiration date, and the security code on the back.

 

[Xyrmellon]

Also, if the hackers have access to DMS....

 

[caffeware]

 

[TTOOLL]

This is actually good.

 

[caffeware]

Elon Musk
Bill Gates
Joe Biden
Floyd Mayweather
Jeff Bezos
Uber
Mike Bloomberg
Warren Buffett
Apple
CashApp
Wiz Khalifa
Kanye West
Barack Obama
MrBeast
xxxtentacion

 

[ManaByte]

Yup can't Tweet from my account.

 

[p_xavier]

This is actually good.

Finally a day of peace if we're lucky.

 

[Turnt]

 

[ManaByte]

Well they finally silenced Trump.

 

[cryptoadam]

Parler strikes again.

Jack gonna have a lot of explaining to do.