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Twitter being hit with a 0 day attack. Apple, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and more hacked in a Bitcoin Scam

StreetsofBeige

StreetsofBeige

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Edit: I posted this GIF because someone else posted it in another thread not long ago. I find this GIF hilarious. Never saw it ever.

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StreetsofBeige

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cryptoadam said:
This seems like a big F U to twitter. Basically spitting in their faces how easy it was. I don't think the BTC was the main end game here.

Anyways we all the real money is in Nigerian princes.
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Twitter has to be the most entertaining medium ever.

And even better, when it comes to entertainment like sports, watching a movie, reading a book, YOU got to take the initiative to go out and do it or buy it.

But with Twitter, you just sit back and watch the action unfold as people post the funnies for you. Literally, you don't need a Twitter account (I don't), you don't need to search for Tweets (I don't unless I'm tagging onto a topic and contributing), it can involve text/audio/video, and it costs nothing.

The perfect form of entertainment!
 
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Grinchy

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MigueelDnd said:
I am in no way versed in cryptocurrency and how it works, but isn't that supposed to be one of its main appeals? That's why people use it for transactions in the deep web and such, isn't it?
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Yeah I guess that's probably true. I've only ever used it once to play some online poker.
 
Endangered08

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Obviously much bigger than a bitcoin scam.

This "tool" seems like a simple program, which allows you to search any user and assuming login credentials are revealed under the "account details" section gives you their account info.

A smart group would be farming everyone they possibly could for months on end before today. Collecting juicy info.

Twitter is going to have to do a full forced password reset for everyone.
 
ManaByte

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They’re already blaming it on Trump:
deadline.com

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Laments “Tough Day” After Hack Attack On Joe Biden, Kanye West, Barack Obama, Elon Musk & More; FBI Investigating

In what actually be the worst day for the social media platform or a harbinger of more disruption to come, @jack took to calm Twitter, kinda
deadline.com deadline.com

On what could be called the worst day for the platform, it also can’t escape anyone’s notice that almost all of those targeted in this clearly coordinated cyberattack were one way or another not exactly the biggest supporters of Donald Trump – and ended up with almost as much digital egg on their face as Twitter itself. While not chump change, the around $300,000 haul that the perpetrators snagged using some very very VIP feeds almost indicates that money wasn’t the real aim here.
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TyphoonStruggle

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YCoCg said:
You guys didn't know about this? It's been around for years, this is one of the main complaints coming from the sex worker community about how accounts get shadow banned, etc.
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Everyone knew it. Twitter and authoritarian leftists denied it. Now we have some semblance of proof here.
 
DragoonKain

DragoonKain

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Tim Pool thinks China was behind it as kind of a warning shot to the country after the news in recent days. That they can get control of anyone social media whenever they want, so don't fuck with us.
 
led4lyfe

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DragoonKain said:
Tim Pool thinks China was behind it as kind of a warning shot to the country after the news in recent days. That they can get control of anyone social media whenever they want, so don't fuck with us.
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If this is true- amen shit down social media. thank you China.
 
StreetsofBeige

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So why did Twitter only lock down verified blue accounts?

Because those are more important people? Anyone who isn't verified, who gives a shit if their account got hacked?
 
Grinchy

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ManaByte said:
They’re already blaming it on Trump:
deadline.com

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Laments “Tough Day” After Hack Attack On Joe Biden, Kanye West, Barack Obama, Elon Musk & More; FBI Investigating

In what actually be the worst day for the social media platform or a harbinger of more disruption to come, @jack took to calm Twitter, kinda
deadline.com deadline.com
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Yeah, let's not pretend that throwing a rock into a room full of Twitter accounts doesn't give you a 98% chance of hitting someone who publicly states that they don't support Trump. It's fucking Twitter. It's the home of the Trump hater.

Before I saw this I was actually going to create my own ridiculous conspiracy theory that Trump put some people from the NSA on a secret mission to mess with Twitter. Then I see that he's already getting blamed in a different way lol.
 
S

Slings and Arrows

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StreetsofBeige said:
Holy shit. I didn't even think of that. Everyone is thinking about the Bitcoin spamming.

Can't wait to see private messages. I hope the hacker plunged in deep and fast before getting locked out.
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I don't think that the hacker sent those tweets and then looked at personal shit. For all we know, they could have been looking at those accounts for weeks/months. The only way we knew that those accounts were compromised was because of the bitcoin tweets.
 
DragoonKain

DragoonKain

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Forget money, they could have changed the landscape of the country. If they had this access tool that allowed them to access any account, they could have went on Trump's and said "We are sending armed forces to attack China right now" or they could have just said "Fuck the [insert ethnicity here]" and there is not a single person on the left who would have believed Trump's account was hacked, it would have led off with every news agency in the country.

"Trump accidentally tweets "fuck the _____" and claims he was hacked.

And the president's account being hacked would've been a terrible look even if people did believe him, but CNN would've had experts on making shit up like "sources close to me say the president said his account can't be hacked" and Twitter of course would've probably lied and said "our records don't indicate any suspicious activity in the president's account."

Whoever this was probably could have changed history if they wanted to. I wonder if they realized that.
 
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TrainedRage

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How long do you think the "hackers" had access to these admin privileges'?

I feel like they could have had access for weeks now and just did this to expose something.
 
ValiantTraveler

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Can’t wait to see what happens next, this gon be gud

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... though I hope Twitter last longer, I gotta save my tweets and there are many accounts which content I like.
 
Greedings

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DragoonKain said:
Forget money, they could have changed the landscape of the country. If they had this access tool that allowed them to access any account, they could have went on Trump's and said "We are sending armed forces to attack China right now" or they could have just said "Fuck the [insert ethnicity here]" and there is not a single person on the left who would have believed Trump's account was hacked, it would have led off with every news agency in the country.

"Trump accidentally tweets "fuck the _____" and claims he was hacked.

And the president's account being hacked would've been a terrible look even if people did believe him, but CNN would've had experts on making shit up like "sources close to me say the president said his account can't be hacked" and Twitter of course would've probably lied and said "our records don't indicate any suspicious activity in the president's account."

Whoever this was probably could have changed history if they wanted to. I wonder if they realized that.
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Nah Bro, a couple of grand in bitcoin from idiots is worth way more.
 
Smiles and Cries

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Spukc said:
Hello this is Ngwoda from wakanda i am rich prince. Please send me your twitterbird account and password to me in a personal massage.

I will sprinkle you with many riches!
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I got a text from my bank the other day saying they declined a charge on my ATM card that was added to a Samsung S7 and asked to reply Yes or No if I was the one using the card

I replied NO

I got a call 30 seconds later from someone pretending to work at my bank asking me to verify my username and password, you sound just like him lol
 
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