The Great Twitter Hack of 2020

[The Atheist]

Dmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded cyber-security company CrowdStrike, told Reuters news agency: "This appears to be the worst hack of a major social media platform yet."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822

I see Bitcoin spiked a little during the last 24 hours, which may be related.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822

I see Bitcoin spiked a little during the last 24 hours, which may be related.

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.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

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.

 

[rjh01]

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.

They would not have received much. Their posts were quickly deleted. It is not the people, it is the platform itself. Read the link.

 

[Darat]

Well we don't know the exact circumstances but these things will happen even with companies that take security very seriously and are vigilant.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

They would not have received much. Their posts were quickly deleted. It is not the people, it is the platform itself. Read the link.

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.

 

[Thermal]

They would not have received much. Their posts were quickly deleted. It is not the people, it is the platform itself. Read the link.

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.