#1 2020-07-16 11:09:00
As you've likely heard, the Twitter accounts of several high-profile people like Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama were hijacked in a Bitcoin scam that netted less than $120k. Indications are that this was a very sophisticated attack on Twitter's systems themselves, not the individual users.
The question becomes: what was the objective of the attackers? It feels implausible that the sole purpose was to grift a relatively paltry amount of money. And it's not like they could have reasonably expected to make much more - the scam was destined to be shut down quickly.
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#2 2020-07-16 14:21:42
square wrote:
The question becomes: what was the objective of the attackers?
False front action to prevent the admission of Twatter posts as "speech" in court by showing reasonable doubt as to the source?
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#3 2020-07-23 21:02:21
Apparently, at a minimum the hackers learned personal phone numbers and e-mail addresses associated with the compromised accounts, as well as accessing direct messages. (In addition to any money.)
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