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The Great Twitter Hack of 2020

I feel like "how not to be socially engineered into granting scammers high-level systems access" should be part of the training for anybody who works in a large social media company, really.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
What is wrong with people? I mean other than greed, avarice, stupidity, and gullibility? In a rational world the scammers would not have received a penny.

I'm sad more than anything else.
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They would not have received much. Their posts were quickly deleted. It is not the people, it is the platform itself. Read the link.
 
Well we don't know the exact circumstances but these things will happen even with companies that take security very seriously and are vigilant.
 
rjh01 said:
They would not have received much. Their posts were quickly deleted. It is not the people, it is the platform itself. Read the link.
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I did read the link. It looks like the scam ran for about 5 minutes. That should be enough time to collect a trillion dollars in Internet time. :p
 
rjh01 said:
They would not have received much. Their posts were quickly deleted. It is not the people, it is the platform itself. Read the link.
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From the link:

In the short time it was online, the link displayed in the tweets of targeted accounts received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000), according to publicly available blockchain records.
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