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Elon Musk as well. Tweets still up, saying "Feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address! You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing thi
by iamben 6y ago
Elon Musk as well. Tweets still up, saying "Feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address!
You send $1,000, I send back $2,000!
Only doing this for the next 30 minutes."
As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC.
Edit: Just seen @BillGates compromised as well, same bitcoin account.
Edit 2: Elon's tweet seems to be getting removed, and then reposted again shortly after. About $40k sent so far.
Edit 3: Interesting to watch - on both accounts, tweets seem to be deleted and then reappear as pinned a few mins later.
- ISL 6y agoTweet is down now, but still in Google's cache.
- ISL 6y agoBillGates tweet is now down, within the last minute.
- pinewurst 6y agoI still see it as a "pinned tweet" https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 (Now gone @ 3:32p Pacific)
- nathancahill 6y agoIt's also getting reposted.
- rvz 6y agoThey are reposting the same message on the hacked accounts again. This is a coordinated Twitter hack.
- blablablub 6y agoOne thing we know now is that Twitter can take tweets down really quickly if they want.
- baal80spam 6y ago> As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC. Fool and his money are soon parted.
- curiousgal 6y agoWhere did you get the 2.5BTC number from? It's more like 1.3BTC by looking up the address on their website. https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wl... Edit: I stand corrected. Holy crap!
- NocturnalWaffle 6y agohttps://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n... 5.9BTC now
- pier25 6y ago11 BTC received !!!
- Joeboy 6y agoThose are both tiny sums anyway.
- GranPC 6y ago2.5 BTC = $23,000
- Joeboy 6y agoRight, an inconsequential amount.
- danhak 6y agoDon't know why you're getting downvoted here. The after hours moves in TWTR and TSLA (assuming they're mostly attributable to the hack) absolutely dwarf the amount collected by the hack itself. TWTR has shed about $643 million in market cap, TSLA $2.4 billion.
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- ortusdux 6y agoI've seen several live streams on youtube that replay spacex launches and display the same offer. Viewership goes up during actual launches. The one I found had 10k active viewers and the address they linked to had brought in 2btc in under an hour.
- monokh 6y agoThey do often supply some coins to themselves to create the illusion that there is activity.
- bogdanu 6y agoI few weeks ago I saw two with 50k each... Google has to step up it's game because their platforms aren't safe anymore.
- Simon_says 6y agoThat's like blaming the post office for chain letters.
- ShorsHammer 6y agoNot really, the post office would actually do something if you said "this person is sending scams through your system". They'd do a lot more if 100 people walked in saying the same. Google does nothing despite thousands of people reporting it. It's bizarre how they ban completely innocuous stuff and allow the blatant scams to continue despite it being drawn to their attention though reports and twitter constantly?
- Reedx 6y agoI'm amazed that accounts at the scale of Elon and Bill Gates weren't locked down within moments. They've been reposting these for at least 30 minutes. What is going on that Twitter didn't get them locked ASAP? Also all of Apple's tweets deleted, and now posting the bitcoin thing as well: https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900 https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900
- throw_m239339 6y ago> What is going on that Twitter didn't get them locked ASAP? I don't think Twitter itself knows yet.
- maxcan 6y agoHonestly, we should be relieved if thats all that was stolen. A more sophisticated attack would involve OTM puts on TSLA and a tweet along the lines of: "finding major defects in Ys and 3s. shutting down all lines to reconfigure for a week" That could have netted the attackers millions.
- Tenoke 6y agoEasier to trace, higher monetary investment etc. This they can likely get away with without risk of losing a big investment.
- gruez 6y agoOn TSLA? You can probably blend in with all the YOLOers on /r/WSB.
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- intuitionist 6y agoYeah, buying out-of-the-money options is a dumb way of insider trading in general, but on TSLA specifically you might could get away with it. Just don’t make your first trade right before you post to Elon’s account.
- czinck 6y agoNot that it changes your point, but hacking Musk's account to tweet wrong info about TSLA would be fraud, not insider trading, since they're not actually an insider. Either way, OTM options is a dumb way to profit on fraud or insider trading.
- jkhdigital 6y agoProfiting from fraud or insider trading is dumb already. Might as well get the most bang for your buck and leverage your scam to the tits.
- dooglius 6y agoPresumably, there was a fake BTC address to go along with that tweet? Otherwise I assume Musk would just return any money...
- RealityVoid 6y agoHaha, I apologise in advance, but for some reason, the tone of your post just made me chuckle. It just had an amusing sort if naivite'. It was most likely the hacker's own BTC address.
- dooglius 6y agoYeah, I think I just had a brain-fart moment there
- 0x00000000 6y agoThey could have inconspicuously joined the numerous TSLA shorters and made 100x that with one tweet
- cryptica 6y agoThis strategy would require having money to begin with. It's a pretty big assumption that hackers have any money. If they had money, they wouldn't have to be hackers.
- bob33212 6y agoAnd it would need to be a relatively small bet compared to your total net worth to avoid detection by the SEC and the hack could fail at the exact time Tesla had a 20% pop leaving you underwater
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoWhatever hack you have that can take a verified account over with 2FA is worth some money... you could sell access to any account with this bypass...
- icedchai 6y agoDeep out of the money options are generally cheap and can have enormous returns.
- cryptica 6y agoMy bet is that some Tweet posting API is missing a critical authentication check or the hackers found a way to bypass this check. I doubt someone could individually hack all these accounts.
- andy_ppp 6y agoI mean why can they not stop the api? Why not just switch it off for a few minutes and figure out what is happening?
- cryptica 6y agoThey would need time to figure out which API endpoint is affected. Twitter is not going to shut down everything just because one endpoint has a possible issue.
- wendyshu 6y agoBarack Obama, Wiz Khalifa, Joe Biden, Floyd Mayweather as well
- mseri 6y agoLots of them have been hacked: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-g...
- seebetter 6y agoAnd just as I checked it, they pinned this tweet (an hour later)-- Elon Musk @elonmusk·38s I am giving back to my community due to Covid-19! All Bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled. If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000! bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy.
- mc32 6y agoJoe Biden too. “He was ‘giving back to the community’” if you sent him money. They tailored the messages pretty well, I have to say. Bezos “was maxing out at 50MM”!!
- Sebb767 6y agoIt's a sidenote, but it's so strange that that would be pocket money for him; just like donating 10$ for us. Gives you a sense of scale.
- staycoolboy 6y agocan you post how you track the wallet this is going into? Thanks. EDIT: Someone already did: https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wl...