Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack 📦

89    15 Jul 2020 22:19 by u/lenn_king

See for yourself: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1q7cyrfmck2ffu2ud3rn5l5a8yv6f0chkp0zpemf Added Links: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qwqdg6squsna38e46795at95yu9atm8azzmyvckulcc7kytlcckxswvvzej https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1NDyJtNTjmwk5xPNhjgAMu4HDHigtobu1s

24 comments

19 u/Klutzy 15 Jul 2020 22:41
so they gained access to the twitter of a couple of the most powerful people in the world... to run an obvious bitcoin scam??? what?
12 u/VILLAIN 15 Jul 2020 22:43
Yes and they made $100K
7 u/lenn_king [OP] 15 Jul 2020 22:45
Check the blockchain links I provided. They've moved around over 20 billion usd in Bitcoin. One of the 20b accounts may have been used for routing though.
3 u/BV141 16 Jul 2020 03:35
I mean there are a lot of dumb people out there but most that dumb wouldn't know how to send bitcoin, I wonder if this was cover for some larger scam.
3 u/WANTED_D_0_A 16 Jul 2020 04:53
Larger scam indeed or just a warning shot? Or perhaps the hacker got too spooked and dropped the ball at the last minute? Imagine the potential if they found a way without Twitter knowing? I suppose whoever it was had ethics and decided to shine the light on the situation rather than start a revolution or something like that! Who knows?.. I just hope it was his bitcoin wallet.. Great way to make some money by using people who have gained financially through us.. I bet techsupport over at Twitter has been escalated to overtime to iron out who and how this could have happened?.. Late night I bet... But I agree.. Wish they could have just destroyed Twitter.
-4 u/None 16 Jul 2020 06:24
Israel. Guaranteed.
1 u/itspeeg 16 Jul 2020 04:48
Yeah, this is dumb as fuck. If they manage to get into those accounts they must have some k ow how, then they use a copy paste Indian scam level thing with bitcoin? Seriously the dumbest fucking criminal hackers on earth.
1 u/None 17 Jul 2020 18:27
They most likely used the Bitcoin scam as a smokescreen, it's a bit suspicious that it would 'only' be that.
13 u/Illuminaughty 16 Jul 2020 01:15
The Winklevoss twins openly stated that their twitter account was hacked inspite of having a strong password and 2 factor authentication system. I think this is an internal hack, not an external hack, more due to the fact that all those big accounts were cracked pretty easily without any notification to their owners.
5 u/kek 16 Jul 2020 02:13
Yeah this seems like a pro job. No way you'd be able to gain access to all of those accounts through conventional methods without raising flags.
1 u/None 17 Jul 2020 18:28
Twitter itself was never focused on security so idk. Once before they literally had been breached and all the passwords were in plaintext, none hashed.
3 u/HelloBoots 16 Jul 2020 04:09
Well, from the article: >>On Wednesday evening, the company revealed that its own internal employee tools were compromised and used in the hack, which may explain why even accounts that claimed to have two-factor authentication were still attempting to fool followers with the Bitcoin scam. It doesn't necessarily need to be an internal hack, just someone at the company who opened a dumb email or gave out their password.
10 u/BV141 16 Jul 2020 03:38
I would donate $1,000 to anyone that could permanently shut down twitter.
5 u/hideous_soul 16 Jul 2020 12:51
I would give you $1,000 to give someone $1,000 who could permanently shut down twitter
4 u/None 16 Jul 2020 04:10
Man I wish they just destroyed Twitter instead.
3 u/somegenerichandle 15 Jul 2020 22:24
wow! I'm going to have to believe you on this one as the block chain links don't make sense to me. Never did like twitter. I looked it up and Obama has more followers than Trump. I feel like that would get on his nerves.
3 u/None 15 Jul 2020 22:39
Anything that's bad on Twitter gives me goosebumps. I read that like lonely moms read 50 Shades. Thanks for sharing!
3 u/Prometheus 15 Jul 2020 23:15
The Day Of The Checkmark has come
3 u/thisisaburner 16 Jul 2020 01:37
Any word on how they did it?
2 u/Dissident001 16 Jul 2020 03:17
No but Twitter was rolling out a new API tonight. Seems like a big coincidence.
1 u/christianmusicreleases 16 Jul 2020 00:00
https://ruqqus.com/post/18gl/if-you-had-just-hacked-into
1 u/pwaully 16 Jul 2020 12:29
How is this even possible?! Unless twitter had a master password or something
1 u/BigDaddyD 17 Jul 2020 13:54
Remember how a week or two ago Twitter said they would be going through their source code so they could change variable names to more "inclusive" words? A horrible idea from the start. I'm thinking they either introduced a huge hole in their security or gave root access to one too many diversity hires.