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Bitcoin scam on Twitter
Jul 16^th, 2020 at 2:07pm

Twitter is not secure and low IQ people fell for a scam -

send $1,000 of Bitcoin to "Bill Gates" and
he'll send back $2,000 within 30 minutes
but you must act now. Grin

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index....

Twitter blames 'coordinated' attack on its systems for hack of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and others.

Updated 0325 GMT (1125 HKT) July 16, 2020

San Francisco (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitter said it believes to be an attack on some of its employees with access to the company's internal tools.
"We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools," Twitter's support team said late Wednesday.
The attackers posted tweets that appeared to promote a cryptocurrency scam.

The accounts, along with those of former President Barack Obama, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, posted similar tweets soliciting donations via Bitcoin to their verified profiles on Wednesday.
"Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time," Gates' tweet said, promising to double all payments to a Bitcoin address for the next 30 minutes. All the tweets were subsequently deleted.
"Once we became aware of the incident, we immediately locked down the affected accounts and removed Tweets posted by the attackers," Twitter said. "We have locked accounts that were compromised and will restore access to the original account owner only when we are certain we can do so securely."

The sheer number of prominent accounts impacted made it arguably the biggest security incident in Twitter's history. A hack like this is particularly concerning not just because of any financial scam that can be run, but because so many world leaders use Twitter — and some, like President Donald Trump, use it to announce major policy decisions. A hack that took over an account belonging to one of those leaders could have devastating consequences.
Last year, Dorsey's account was hacked, raising concerns about whether any account on the platform can truly avoid being compromised. The mechanism by which that hack occurred was fixed by Twitter after Dorsey's hack and there's no reason to believe it is to blame here.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 112996 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Bitcoin scam on Twitter Reply #1 - Jul 16^th, 2020 at 2:43pm The scammers made a quick $100K before Twitter closed of ticked accounts. Who on earth would be so stupid to get sucked in by that?
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Re: Bitcoin scam on Twitter
Reply #2 - Jul 16^th, 2020 at 2:44pm

Bobby. wrote on Jul 16^th, 2020 at 2:07pm:

Twitter is not secure and low IQ people fell for a scam -

send $1,000 of Bitcoin to "Bill Gates" and
he'll send back $2,000 within 30 minutes
but you must act now. Grin

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index....

Twitter blames 'coordinated' attack on its systems for hack of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and others.

Updated 0325 GMT (1125 HKT) July 16, 2020

San Francisco (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitter said it believes to be an attack on some of its employees with access to the company's internal tools.
"We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools," Twitter's support team said late Wednesday.
The attackers posted tweets that appeared to promote a cryptocurrency scam.

The accounts, along with those of former President Barack Obama, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, posted similar tweets soliciting donations via Bitcoin to their verified profiles on Wednesday.
"Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time," Gates' tweet said, promising to double all payments to a Bitcoin address for the next 30 minutes. All the tweets were subsequently deleted.
"Once we became aware of the incident, we immediately locked down the affected accounts and removed Tweets posted by the attackers," Twitter said. "We have locked accounts that were compromised and will restore access to the original account owner only when we are certain we can do so securely."

The sheer number of prominent accounts impacted made it arguably the biggest security incident in Twitter's history. A hack like this is particularly concerning not just because of any financial scam that can be run, but because so many world leaders use Twitter — and some, like President Donald Trump, use it to announce major policy decisions. A hack that took over an account belonging to one of those leaders could have devastating consequences.
Last year, Dorsey's account was hacked, raising concerns about whether any account on the platform can truly avoid being compromised. The mechanism by which that hack occurred was fixed by Twitter after Dorsey's hack and there's no reason to believe it is to blame here.

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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 9156	Re: Bitcoin scam on Twitter Reply #3 - Jul 16^th, 2020 at 3:08pm It’s a scam running on Facebook too, using friends hacked into accounts sending it to their friends, about bitcoin and how Mel Gibson recommends it blah blah blah
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 17058 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Bitcoin scam on Twitter Reply #4 - Jul 17^th, 2020 at 7:19pm Bobby. wrote on Jul 16^th, 2020 at 2:43pm: The scammers made a quick $100K before Twitter closed of ticked accounts. Who on earth would be so stupid to get sucked in by that? Twits, twitter is full of them.
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 112996 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Bitcoin scam on Twitter Reply #5 - Jul 17^th, 2020 at 7:21pm Setanta wrote on Jul 17^th, 2020 at 7:19pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 16^th, 2020 at 2:43pm: The scammers made a quick $100K before Twitter closed of ticked accounts. Who on earth would be so stupid to get sucked in by that? Twits, twitter is full of them. It's amazing that people fall for those scams.
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