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Maybe the dude shorted the Twitter stock?
by csomar 6y ago
Maybe the dude shorted the Twitter stock?
- stjo 6y agoYeah, I'm not sure there is much to be gained from leaking internal data (are DMs that valuable?). The actual scam is executed so poorly that it can't be the main goal too. "Prooving" you have a good exploit by throwing it away is also not plausible.
- latraveler 6y agoExactly, this would be a pretty reckless way to prove an exploit. You could just tell the potential buyer to create a new account and then tweet from that handle.
- manquer 6y agoPerhaps, however proving you can access verified accounts is harder, still even that could have been proved lot more quietly if they wanted to , clearly this is a distraction or something else being is sold/showcased beyond this exploit
- Mountain_Skies 6y agoWhile we'd hope that most people would be smarter than the send anything incriminating through a DM, the high profile nature of some of these accounts means anything embarrassing in their DMs could have significant value. They already have access to two presidential candidate's accounts and might have access to the incumbent's account even if they didn't post from it.
- wisemanwillhear 6y agoBad idea for the hacker. Stock ownership is public information.
- drra 6y agoThere is a spike of the short volume on 8th - https://fintel.io/ss/us/twtr https://fintel.io/ss/us/twtr
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- manjalyc 6y agoDoubt it, that would open up too many vectors on an otherwise easily anonymized operation.