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The great Twitter hack

Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623
edited July 2020 in The Rail
A whole bunch of "verified Accounts" were compromised last night on Twitter at around 10pm UK time.

The hacked Twitter accounts included;

Elon Musk

Bill Gates

Barack Obama

Jeff Bezos (Mr Amazon)

Warren Buffet

Joe Biden



All of those "Verified Accounts" & many others were Tweeting messages similar to this;





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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623

    At the last count, some £82,000 had ended up in the hands of the hackers. A Tweet which purported to come from the hackers said the money would go to charity, but it's unclear if that was just another hoax.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623

    The key thing here is NOT the money. If folks were dumb enough to fall for the "send me £1k & I'll send £2k back" scam I've got no sympathy.

    The big deal is that a whole bunch of Twitter Accounts were definitely compromised. That's bad.

    It's being suggested that the hackers somehow got into the accounts of Twitter employees, stole their "Admin Rights" & then gained access to the verified accounts & changed the passwords & e-Mails associated with them.

    Jack at Twitter has apologised....




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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623

    President Trump has a verified account.

    It's terrifying to think hackers could gain control of it. We could be in a war within days.

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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623

    Who did this?

    The conspiracy theorists are having a field day. Russia, China, North Korea, President Trump, BLM have all been suggested.

    This is arguably the most serious online hack ever, & has potential consequences for all of us.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623

    Here's how The Guardian saw it;

    Twitter Hack

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  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,586
    The passwords should be encrypted even at twitter end so idk what sort of crappy security twitter use. Maybe they used a method to obtain passwords another way.

    Devastating potential consequences here. Last month Elon tweeted he thought TSLA stock was too high and within seconds the company was valued at 20% less. That's how sensitive these twitter accounts are.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623

    @kapowblamz

    Exactly. The bitcoin scam associated with last night's do is no big deal, but the fact that so many accounts were compromised on one of the biggest sites on earth is pretty scary.

    They clearly got "inside" Twitter somehow.
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  • CammykazeCammykaze Member Posts: 1,397
    edited July 2020
    Tikay10 said:


    Who did this?

    The conspiracy theorists are having a field day. Russia, China, North Korea, President Trump, BLM have all been suggested.

    This is arguably the most serious online hack ever, & has potential consequences for all of us.

    They will and have some reason to I guess.

    Who knows what is happening out there in twitterland recently. Quite scary!
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  • madprofmadprof Member Posts: 3,458
    What happened to the basic principle of

    “ If something looks to good to be true...”

    Hackers are vile but greedy people lose money...
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  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,586
    It seems to be a 'white hat' hacker who thinks the US healthcare system is not up to scratch. That's my 2 cents from reading the bbc article on it.
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  • CammykazeCammykaze Member Posts: 1,397
    kapowblamz said:

    It seems to be a 'white hat' hacker who thinks the US healthcare system is not up to scratch. That's my 2 cents from reading the bbc article on it.

    To make a point on what they can do or to push/promote 'change' do you think?
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  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,586
    I doubt this is a truly philosophical hacker. It's probably a young gun showing what he/she can do and tagging on healthcare and charity to legitimize.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623
    edited July 2020
    @kapowblamz

    What is a "white hat" hacker?

    EDIT - Ignore that, I've found it.



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)
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  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,586
    If you follow 'the jester' on twitter he has a bunch of info that's not really in public domain so much wrt this hack.

    Apparently a twitter employee was convinced by the hacker to help them out.

    https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r?lang=en
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623
    kapowblamz said:

    If you follow 'the jester' on twitter he has a bunch of info that's not really in public domain so much wrt this hack.

    Apparently a twitter employee was convinced by the hacker to help them out.

    https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r?lang=en

    Good find, thank you.
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  • dragon1964dragon1964 Member Posts: 3,054
    Tikay10 said:


    President Trump has a verified account.

    It's terrifying to think hackers could gain control of it. We could be in a war within days.

    Why bother?
    He's managing that all by himself.
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  • tai-gartai-gar Member Posts: 2,688
    dragon1964 said:

    Tikay10 said:


    President Trump has a verified account.

    It's terrifying to think hackers could gain control of it. We could be in a war within days.

    Why bother?
    He's managing that all by himself.
    I thought Trumps was a T watter account.
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  • waller02waller02 Member Posts: 9,072
    I reckon it was @mumsie
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  • CammykazeCammykaze Member Posts: 1,397
    edited July 2020
    dragon1964 said:

    Tikay10 said:


    President Trump has a verified account.

    It's terrifying to think hackers could gain control of it. We could be in a war within days.

    Why bother?
    He's managing that all by himself.
    Partly.

    He communicates through Twitter so his words are not mismanaged by media outlets and the verified accounts being hacked is a concern.
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  • VespaPXVespaPX Member Posts: 12,396
    Will the hackers have access to any private messages?
    Could be interesting.
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