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[Smiles and Cries]

I thought xtratentacle was dead?

Micheal Jackson has an active twitter account so does Prince

it is normal for Estates to take over thos accounts to continue to sell albums

 

[TTOOLL]

So, Twitter has the power to post in behalf of users? That's it? The individual accounts weren't hacked, but Twitter itself was. This is really big. I hope more people finally see how much power they are giving away by using these "platforms".

 

[MisterFalcon]

So, Twitter has the power to post in behalf of users? That's it? The individual accounts weren't hacked, but Twitter itself was. This is really big. I hope more people finally see how much power they are giving away by using these "platforms".

From what I see they got access to some backend that allows the update of the email address of the user, the one where password resets are sent to. And this update was done without 2FA so no one would be notified.

This seems to be a really opportunistic action and not some massive plan being executed. I can imagine some guy who sends mass spams to millions of email addresses to suddenly hit jackpot as some dumb Twitter admin clicks a link and he realizes what he has access to. He's got a few hours to work in, just enough time to set up a bitcoin scam for a few top users but not to really do anything more. Although it may have been possible to grab a dump of DMs from the accounts, I have no twitter account and have no idea how this would work.

Anyone who has twitter, say someone has access and wants to grab all your of DMs, is there a download all option or would you need some external plugin ?

 

[H4ze]

How dense do you have to be to fall for that, like honestly, it's really stupid...

Twitter was also a mistake, worst shit the Internet has ever seen.

 

[ManaByte]

From what I see they got access to some backend that allows the update of the email address of the user, the one where password resets are sent to. And this update was done without 2FA so no one would be notified.

This seems to be a really opportunistic action and not some massive plan being executed. I can imagine some guy who sends mass spams to millions of email addresses to suddenly hit jackpot as some dumb Twitter admin clicks a link and he realizes what he has access to. He's got a few hours to work in, just enough time to set up a bitcoin scam for a few top users but not to really do anything more. Although it may have been possible to grab a dump of DMs from the accounts, I have no twitter account and have no idea how this would work.

Anyone who has twitter, say someone has access and wants to grab all your of DMs, is there a download all option or would you need some external plugin ?

You can download your entire Twitter archive of data including all tweets, media, and DMs. It'a a big dump though, mine was 12GB.

 

[mortal]

Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts

After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.

www.vice.com

 

[Skyfox]

I detest twitter.

 

[cryptoadam]

So is Jack gonna have to testify in front of congress?

Any world leader right now should be shaking in their boots about what happened. Biden/Trump need to be rethinking being on twitter. One tweet from Trump saying F Nwords and the entire US could burn.

 

[ManaByte]

So is Jack gonna have to testify in front of congress?

Any world leader right now should be shaking in their boots about what happened. Biden/Trump need to be rethinking being on twitter. One tweet from Trump saying F Nwords and the entire US could burn.

Hell, they go do a single word N-bomb Tweet from Trump and that'd be it.

 

[cryptoadam]

Also put some buy orders on stock at really low prices.

If you watched Tim Pool you might have seen the Obama hack that tanked the stock market. Literally Dark Knight Banes plan IRL.

If they do it again you could pick up some stocks when it crashes and then ride it all the way back up to the top.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

How dense do you have to be to fall for that, like honestly, it's really stupid...

Twitter was also a mistake, worst shit the Internet has ever seen.

It's pretty amazing how much harm Twitter have done.

 

[TheContact]

I've seen this bitcoin scam before but it was done with fake accounts trying to look like real accounts.

 

[iconmaster]

So...whose DMs do you want to see most?

 

[V4skunk]

Never used Twitter, what am I seeing?

You are seeing that twitter has blacklists which they denied they have.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Amazing they hacked Obama’s twitter. And Biden!

seems like it would be pretty easy to hack someone’s account and have them post some cancelable shit

 

[poppabk]

How fucking lame. They get access to posting from all these sites and all they post is a lame Bitcoin scam. They could have made up so much fun shit with each account corroborating the other, it would have taken a long time for the truth to come out, and crafted right the correction could have been made to look like a cover-up.
If they were only interested in making money they could have crashed the stock market or at least one stock and that they shorted before hand.

 

[Chittagong]

How fucking lame. They get access to posting from all these sites and all they post is a lame Bitcoin scam. They could have made up so much fun shit with each account corroborating the other, it would have taken a long time for the truth to come out, and crafted right the correction could have been made to look like a cover-up.
If they were only interested in making money they could have crashed the stock market or at least one stock and that they shorted before hand.

“You had one chance to start WW3”

 

[ManaByte]

“You had one chance to start WW3”

Trump Tweet: "I have just ordered a FULL FORCE nuclear launch against North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China! HAVE A NICE LIFE LOSERS!"

 

[Starfield]

Imagine WW3 happened because someone hacked an admins Twitter account and started spreading fake news on social media.

Someone in Hollywood probably already writing a script as we a speak.

 

[cryptoadam]

How fucking lame. They get access to posting from all these sites and all they post is a lame Bitcoin scam. They could have made up so much fun shit with each account corroborating the other, it would have taken a long time for the truth to come out, and crafted right the correction could have been made to look like a cover-up.
If they were only interested in making money they could have crashed the stock market or at least one stock and that they shorted before hand.

And maybe thats what they want you to think while they are reading all the DMs of everyone who they had access too.

 

[poppabk]

“You had one chance to start WW3”

Doesn't have to be WW3 of course, maybe just a tweet from Apple announcing Steve Jobs was today the first human being to be succesfully reanimated from cryogenic storage. Then Elon Musk tweeting how proud he was to be involved in supplying the technology that made it all possible and that he was introducing his new Tesla Life company. Obama tweeting how he was one of the few VIPs invited to witness the historic procedure. Then Steven King complaining that real life was stealing his stories. Then Biden tweeting that he would be undergoing the same reanimation procedure before the election.

 

[PPIMystaceus]

Yeah, I'm on the train that this isn't just a Bitcoin scam. The timing is too perfect after Trump's recent executive order against China.

 

[cryptoadam]

Does anyone feel like this is being swept under the rug.

Is the hope we all forget that fake messages were blasted out by some of the most influential people in the world?

 

[CloudNull]

Does anyone feel like this is being swept under the rug.

Is the hope we all forget that fake messages were blasted out by some of the most influential people in the world?

It has been memory holed. People think it was all just a cheeky bitcoin scam. At least FBI is investigating.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technolog...the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero)

 

[IntentionalPun]

So is Jack gonna have to testify in front of congress?

Any world leader right now should be shaking in their boots about what happened. Biden/Trump need to be rethinking being on twitter. One tweet from Trump saying F Nwords and the entire US could burn.

Have to agree..Maybe they should already have been thinking... "Perhaps we shouldn't use completely out of our control social media services as a prominent means of communication?"

Instead of "let's call the feds on the business that was hacked" lol

 

[Droxcy]

Insane Twitter better figure this shit out quick

 

[Irobot82]

Yeah, I'm on the train that this isn't just a Bitcoin scam. The timing is too perfect after Trump's recent executive order against China.

The BTC scam is irrelevant. The fact that certain people at twitter have the power to tweet as anyone is fucking terrifying.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[caffeware]

Anyone else thinks this was just a warning/"sending a msg" to the twitter higher ups?

 

[iconmaster]

Does anyone feel like this is being swept under the rug.

Is the hope we all forget that fake messages were blasted out by some of the most influential people in the world?

Twitter is actually being good about providing further info as it uncovers it. It’s bad news, of course: the hackers got the DMs for 8 of the compromised accounts.



Edit: they later clarify the 8 accounts were not verified accounts, so we’re probably not looking at Joe Biden’s DMs ending up on Pastebin. Probably.

 

[Scotty W]

If you watched Tim Pool you might have seen the Obama hack that tanked the stock market.

What is this?

 

[Cunth]

Wanna see some spicy DMs.

It was definitely China though

 

[cryptoadam]

What is this?

It was a few years ago. Actually a hack of AP news that said Obama was injured when he was POTUS.

Market crashed to like 0 for 10 minutes and then bounced back up.

It was Banes plot in real life.

 

[V1LÆM]

fuck twitter. delete that shit yo

 

[CloudNull]

Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts | TechCrunch

Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted

techcrunch.com

Twitter originally said only 8 accounts had their dms accessed and none of the accounts were verified. Turns out that was a lie.

 

[cryptoadam]

Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts | TechCrunch

Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted

techcrunch.com

Twitter originally said only 8 accounts had their dms accessed and none of the accounts were verified. Turns out that was a lie.

Qanon is a bigger worry for twitter.

 

[ManaByte]

Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts | TechCrunch

Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted

techcrunch.com

Twitter originally said only 8 accounts had their dms accessed and none of the accounts were verified. Turns out that was a lie.

Shit is about to hit the fan.

 

[Falcs]

Commoooooooon leaks!!! Haven't had a good leak since The Woke of Us Part 2.

 

[M1chl]

Leak it now! Would be glorious.

 

[slugbahr]

Remember the days when all that Sony stuff was being leaked.
Fun times!

 

[caffeware]

Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply | CNN Business

Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business.

edition.cnn.com

 

[ManaByte]

An update on our security incident

An update on our security incident and what we know so far.

blog.twitter.com

The social engineering that occurred on July 15, 2020, targeted a small number of employees through a phone spear phishing attack. A successful attack required the attackers to obtain access to both our internal network as well as specific employee credentials that granted them access to our internal support tools. Not all of the employees that were initially targeted had permissions to use account management tools, but the attackers used their credentials to access our internal systems and gain information about our processes. This knowledge then enabled them to target additional employees who did have access to our account support tools. Using the credentials of employees with access to these tools, the attackers targeted 130 Twitter accounts, ultimately Tweeting from 45, accessing the DM inbox of 36, and downloading the Twitter Data of 7.

 

[DragoonKain]

A teenager was behind this apparently

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts

A Tampa teenager is in jail, accused of being the “mastermind” behind a hack on the social media website Twitter that caused limited access to the site and high-profile accounts, accord…

www.wfla.com

 

[iconmaster]

A teenager was behind this apparently

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts

A Tampa teenager is in jail, accused of being the “mastermind” behind a hack on the social media website Twitter that caused limited access to the site and high-profile accounts, accord…

www.wfla.com

I'm sure he's very clever, but it just shows how laughable online security is in general.

 

[cryptoadam]

China/Iran/NK are rolling with laughter right now.

Jack you got beaten by a 17 year old. I hope he feels the shame of a thousand men who just finished beating it.

 

[DragoonKain]

I suppose you can look at this as poetic justice for all the times Biden invaded a kid’s personal space, now a kid invades his

 

[Stilton Disco]

A teenager was behind this apparently

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts

A Tampa teenager is in jail, accused of being the “mastermind” behind a hack on the social media website Twitter that caused limited access to the site and high-profile accounts, accord…

www.wfla.com

That's actually even more terrifying. If a fucking 17 year old could single handedly access all this shit that could have caused fuck knows how many deaths and what kind of destruction, then what actual cyberwarfare tactics might be employed at a moments notice are that much more terrifying to contemplate and easy to implement.

 

[iconmaster]

That's actually even more terrifying. If a fucking 17 year old could single handedly access all this shit that could have caused fuck knows how many deaths and what kind of destruction, then what actual cyberwarfare tactics might be employed at a moments notice are that much more terrifying to contemplate and easy to implement.

Of course. For a well-funded team of state actors, this and much more would be trivial.