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i bet you knew that Microsoft, Tesla, Adobe, Elon Musks personal Twitter account, etc etc got involved in this Twitter scenario but oh no Apple only gets the blame
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Apple's Twitter Account Hacked by Bitcoin Scammers
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i bet you knew that Microsoft, Tesla, Adobe, Elon Musks personal Twitter account, etc etc got involved in this Twitter scenario but oh no Apple only gets the blame
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Twitter and Bitcoin are a scam. They bring nothing but filth into the world. Jack Dorsey profits from both and the filth.
As of writing this post, 275 transactions to that Bitcoin account. Has amassed over 11BTC incoming so far.
Scammers Blockchain Account Transactions
Scammers Blockchain Account Transactions
They do. Verified accounts are required to on Twitter as of a couple years ago.
This is a hack of Twitter itself.
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Yeah about $106,000 so far.
A fool and his cryptocurrency are soon parted.
Are you saying I can’t believe Elon Musk’s tweets anymore?!?
Wait..
Are you saying I can believe Elon Musk’s tweets now?!?
Wait...
So, nothing different?
CNN is now reporting on it.
Add Kanye West, Michael Bloomberg, and others to the list.
www.cnn.com
Add Kanye West, Michael Bloomberg, and others to the list.
Twitter blames 'coordinated' attack on its systems for hack of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and others
Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitter said it believes to be an attack on some of its employees with access to the company's internal tools.
send it to me and I’ll double you money I’m 14 days. if You want it back, great. If you want to triple the doubled money, I’ll do that in another 21 ways. If you want to quadruple the tripled money I doubled, you would have to wait 28 days after that.Does this mean that I will not get double my money back?
here is the scheme:
You: $1000
//14 days//
Me: $2000 return
If you keep $2000, end of game. If you keep money with me ...
Me: $2000
//21 days later//
Me: $6000
If you keep $6000, end of game. If you keep money with me ...
Me: $6000
// 28 days later //
Me: $24,000
Total Time: 14+21+28 = 63 days (just over 2 months).
This is a secret method used by the rich people like Cook, Gates, Bezos, etc.. This offer is only for you.
Kindly send the money ASAP via account transfer.
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Prince of Persia
Seems it may have been a 3rd party app they use, which allows API access, which was compromised. For instance, compromise Hootsuite and you can then tweet from any account connected with it.
Twitter needs to throw up the Fail Whale. Haven't seen it in quite some time but it seems the only way to stop this right now dead.
CNN and others have already reported on it.
Looks like Twitter is now acting to lock this down. Tweets from many of these accounts are not showing at all on the platform.
But how? I thought Apple had the best security ever!
I hope this doesn't impact the stock price!
I hope this doesn't impact the stock price!
Why would a 3rd party have any even remote connection to Apple's stock price. It is akin to the interest on your mortgage going up because the shop twenty miles away got robbed.
Sheesh! Imagine if the hackers got a hold of President Trump's twitter, and tweeted about launching nuclear weapons immediately. That would be BAD. I'm sure extra security measures are in place specifically for his account, but still...
Scams by their very nature target the gullible, ill-informed or desperate. They don’t expect or need the majority of people to fall for it. It’s only ever a small minority that do.
I’ve read that Twitter only supports SMS codes, not real 2FA. If so, accounts be an be compromised by redirecting the phone number they’re registered to.
Not really helping the argument to use bitcoin, are they?
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin
This would require redirecting dozens, if not hundreds of phone numbers with numerous carriers. That's incredibly unlikely to be what happened here.
Chances are they all use a 3rd party tool like Hootsuite and someone compromised Hootsuite and then has API access to any account connected to it, or they compromised Twitter directly.
This has nothing to do with Apple security.
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Twitter supports OTP. I used OTP Auth for the codes. I used to have that as part of my 2FA when I had an account.
Because it’s for a limited time only!!1!
And you can make lots of money!!1! Hurry!!1!
(Yeah, that works on a lot of people, who don’t stop to think “what’s the motivation here?”)
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