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Someone got mugged with their phone unlocked and the mugger had a friend who was into bitcoin.

emiliobumachar 6y ago
Too diverse and high-profile to be a physical attack by small fry. "...from the accounts of Gemini, Binance, KuCoin, Coinbase, Litecoin's Charlie Lee, Tron's Justin Sun, Bitcoin, Bitfinex, Ripple, Cash App, Elon Musk, Uber, Apple, Kanye West, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Barack Obama and CoinDesk."
- VectorLock 6y ago
  Get admin access from unlocked phones, make a bitcoin wallet, use admin access to send tweets with double-your-bitcoin tweet. Start thinking up accounts you think would work well for it and start going through them one by one.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  My guess is that a Twitter insider sold access. I bet the reason Trump didn't get hacked was because he is special-cased in the Twitter system to avoid insider vandalism which protected his account from this insider attack.
  - bmarquez 6y ago
    I believe you are right, a rogue Twitter employee had previously[1] deleted Trump's account. So there must have been some special protection to prevent it from happening again. [1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-employee-deletes-donald-trumps-account-on-last-day-a8034831.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-em...
    - solarkraft 6y ago
      I find it interesting that this kind of protection isn't the default.
      - emiliobumachar 6y ago
        It probably involves one or two humans reviewing anything suspicious.
        Breza 6y ago
        Agreed, it could be as simple as someone at Twitter calling someone in the White House every time someone logs into the account. (The White House has a ton of staff, I met some of their IT people at a conference back in the day.)
- Scoundreller 6y ago
  Apple was interesting because they have 3.8m followers and zero tweets. Maybe they've never tweeted. But today they did.
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    Someone in this thread said their tweets don't show up in their timeline because they usually promote their tweets.

Too diverse and high-profile to be a physical attack by small fry. "...from the accounts of Gemini, Binance, KuCoin, Coinbase, Litecoin's Charlie Lee, Tron's Justin Sun, Bitcoin, Bitfinex, Ripple, Cash App, Elon Musk, Uber, Apple, Kanye West, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Barack Obama and CoinDesk."

VectorLock 6y ago
Get admin access from unlocked phones, make a bitcoin wallet, use admin access to send tweets with double-your-bitcoin tweet. Start thinking up accounts you think would work well for it and start going through them one by one.
hombre_fatal 6y ago
My guess is that a Twitter insider sold access. I bet the reason Trump didn't get hacked was because he is special-cased in the Twitter system to avoid insider vandalism which protected his account from this insider attack.
- bmarquez 6y ago
  I believe you are right, a rogue Twitter employee had previously[1] deleted Trump's account. So there must have been some special protection to prevent it from happening again. [1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-employee-deletes-donald-trumps-account-on-last-day-a8034831.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-em...
  - solarkraft 6y ago
    I find it interesting that this kind of protection isn't the default.
    - emiliobumachar 6y ago
      It probably involves one or two humans reviewing anything suspicious.
      - Breza 6y ago
        Agreed, it could be as simple as someone at Twitter calling someone in the White House every time someone logs into the account. (The White House has a ton of staff, I met some of their IT people at a conference back in the day.)
Scoundreller 6y ago
Apple was interesting because they have 3.8m followers and zero tweets. Maybe they've never tweeted. But today they did.
- SahAssar 6y ago
  Someone in this thread said their tweets don't show up in their timeline because they usually promote their tweets.