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Apple's Twitter Account Hacked by Bitcoin Scammers
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Does anyone know how long it takes to receive back the double amount? Haven't seen anything back yet, asking for a friend
Because all it’s used for is scamming and illegal financial machinations.
And this is why world leaders and governments shouldn't have Twitter accounts. We're one stupid hack away from someone provoking a world war. Absolutely insane. 
I feel really bad for anyone who may have fell for it, but other than that the world will move on lol. Back in the day there were world wars between countries and what not. Today, foreign countries try to hack someones twitter or bring down a site, then it's usually fixed within minutes. My guess is that veterans would be laughing at this compared to what they had to go through and what they've seen on the battle field. Think D-Day 🇺🇲
what do you mean? simply put in the bitcoin address in the blacklist and have the service deny any tweets that contain the address, regardless if it was innocent or not. there's simply no reason to input the full bitcoin address in any tweet. once you do that, you can cut off monetization by the hackers by a substantial amount.
i mean they're already deleting all tweets that contain photos of the internal tool that was used in today's hack, so it's not innocent tweets they're worried about.
now THAT would not be a hack ... it would either be silence or a reckoning
joking aside I’m very curious what “fix” remedied the “issue” or security breach.
Would twitter give us specific details?
Oh look someone doesn’t understand the issue at all because they didn’t read past the headline. Shocker
That guy loves to give bitcoin away. Still waiting for my downpayment to be returned. Must be busy. </s>
lol.
USD isn’t used for crime no?
Bitcoin is an interesting project with beautiful use of cryptography.
I don’t have any, but I’m glad I’m ignorant about it.
Why funny? Its a crime!
Hackers are mostly teenagers who are too young to care and don't know what criminal activity means for the victims concerned, because they are too immature for the world and think they are too cool. No fun!
Of course any kid can intrude Twitter, but you don't break into your neighbour's garden just because you could.
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My AppleCard, email, physical address, etc Were all hacked as well. In good company i guess.
A Brazen Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam (Published 2020)
In a major show of force, hackers breached some of the site’s most prominent accounts, a Who’s Who of Americans in politics, entertainment and tech.
Edit: They may have also made trades that bet on TWTR going down suddenly.
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While I agree with you, 2 factor authentication, when it sends a text or email, isn't all that more secure ins ome situations. For example, when I get a text with a code, or Apple's popup code, to verify my account the text/popeup etc. also appears on the Apple product I am using to access the account. Granted, you have to have physical access to a machine to get further access but it still is a security hole.
FYI looks the hack was done using Twitter's internal tools, so perhaps either some inside help (that's happened before in regards to some shady stuff with Saudi Arabia) or social engineering on an employee... but still not confirmed... either way still a huge gap with security (just as any externally facing code, your internal tools need to be tight as well)
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got my $2000
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$100k seems like a really bad ROI. The risk is incredible and I would think this is rather state controlled.
shows the world how easily a platform such as twitter can be compromised.