Apple's Twitter Account Hacked by Bitcoin Scammers

[ruka.snow]

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

― George Carlin

I get this but it just does not compute. People can use a computer, know what Twitter is, and learn how to buy bitcoin to give to a scammer.. it does not add up.

 

[naturalstar]

But how? I thought Apple had the best security ever!
I hope this doesn't impact the stock price!

Twitter was compromised, not Apple. Twitter accounts are affected, one of which belongs to Apple.

Nothing to do with Apple security, but everything to do with Twitter's.

 

[MallardDuck]

It's definitely a back end attack - accounts are deleting the tweets, but they're reappearing. Either insider at Twitter or a tweet scheduling services has to be the source.

 

[CarlJ]

Sheesh! Imagine if the hackers got a hold of President Trump's twitter, and tweeted about launching nuclear weapons immediately. That would be BAD.

Would anybody actually notice it was scammers?

 

[AndyMacAndMic]

How do people not know this is a scam????

Lots of people are still sending money to a Nigerian prince promising them heaven and beyond. Why not believe this?

 

[neoelectronaut]

I've had 2FA active on my account for a while via SMS, but I used this as my breaking point to use an authentication app instead.

Unfortunately it appears that the functionality for that is currently busted, as it keeps giving me an error message.

Guess I'll try again tomorrow.

 

[noleli]

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

― George Carlin

Median 🤓

 

[eoblaed]

Twitter: Security with an 'S'.

 

[ghanwani]

Unlikely to be a "hack". Twitter's been promoting an impending update to their API service, I'll bet my Bitcoin that the root cause stems from there. https://twitter.com/TwitterDev

* Disclaimer: I have no Bitcoins to bet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not a hack in a traditional sense of a compromised password, but a hack nonetheless. I have had a problem with twitter where my account shows I am following people that I did not perform. It just keeps happening over and over. Their security is atrocious.

 

[sentiblue]

Perhaps you didn't read the article?

I don't even think he read the title. Because the title clearly says who got hacked.

 

[Kabeyun]

not shocking apple can not keep our data and information private or protected they simply are strong enough for the power they have

Not to pile on, but I’ll pile on. Most people around here don’t bother to read a referenced article. Many people around here don’t bother to read the MR article. You couldn’t even manage the title.

 

[Apple Macintosh 128K]

Twitter is aware of the issue and investigating.

The hackers even changed the bio of Twitter CEO.

 

[B4U]

This is golden...
Even Jack got it too...

 

[riverfreak]

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.

2FA is a second factor that is something you know (name of first girlfriend), something you have (a mobile phone that can receive an SMS or a hardware token), or something you are (Biometric). SMS codes are very real 2FA.

I highly, highly, highly doubt that all of these accounts were sim swapped.

oh, and Twitter definitely does support hardware tokens.

edit: fixed a goofy quoting problem

 

[B4U]

I get this but it just does not compute. People can use a computer, know what Twitter is, and learn how to buy bitcoin to give to a scammer.. it does not add up.

Only if every human is as logical as that... 😨

 

[splifingate]

Ahem... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies

Ha!

Regards, splifingate

 

[GadgetBen]

BBC reporting that in the few minutes the tweet was up, over $100,000 was donated.

 

[ArPe]

Twitter is aware of the issue and investigating.

The hackers even changed the bio of Twitter CEO.
View attachment 934202

That has always been his bio. He’s an awful person who profits from it and promotes this scam that has been used for dodging the law and making terrible crimes easier.

 

[Stuipdboy1000]

Twitter has reportedly turned off tweeting from any verified account until they can get to the bottom of this.

 

[riverfreak]

It's definitely a back end attack - accounts are deleting the tweets, but they're reappearing. Either insider at Twitter or a tweet scheduling services has to be the source.

The latter seems the most likely.

 

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

I get this but it just does not compute. People can use a computer, know what Twitter is, and learn how to buy bitcoin to give to a scammer.. it does not add up.

Have you ever heard of Bernie Madoff?

 

[viss]

The first is my bet, insider

 

[damphoose]

Twitter is feeling like BlockBuster: the writing is on the wall, ripe for any competent competition to come in and swoop them up.

Will make you wonder how they were ever a thing, like dial-up AOL or Netscape or instant messenger or dumb phones and pagers

I know it sounded better in your head but wondering how those technologies were ever a thing is like people driving in cars wondering how horses were ever a thing.

 

[AppleShareholder]

not shocking apple can not keep our data and information private or protected they simply are strong enough for the power they have

Honestly, I don't care if Apple leaks all our info if their stock price doubles.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Maybe Twitter will die.

(One can hope)