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The most reasonable explanation might be that they’re lying to sound cool. Bribery is a thing, but any twitter employee would know that their employment (and fu

The most reasonable explanation might be that they’re lying to sound cool. Bribery is a thing, but any twitter employee would know that their employment (and future career prospects) would be terminated. On the other hand, $1M in BTC might do the trick. Interesting thought experiment...

redisman 6y ago
There’s bribery but I think blackmail is even likelier. This is such a huge breach that no one should think they could get away with leaking their credentials or opening a backdoor. Plus Twitter employees are really well paid. Now some life-ruining online behavior material is another type of a motivator.
- dannyw 6y ago
  Are twitter support contractors in third world countries really well paid?
  - redisman 6y ago
    I doubt they would have global production access like this
unishark 6y ago
Unless the employee helped in a way that they didn't realize could be used for such a hack. And/or they just thought it couldn't be traced back to them.
tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
You're thinking of an engineer, not a low paid worker in the tech company equivalent of a call center working on repetitive tasks for low pay in India or some other country where labor is cheap. And you're also making the assumption that the accomplice thought about it rationally. All the attacker has to do is find someone who doesn't realize that they will get caught.