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Like many of you, I watched this rolling on Wednesday night using live verified accounts link that was widely shared. I was also just looking at the 'regular pe
by iamben 6y ago
Like many of you, I watched this rolling on Wednesday night using live verified accounts link that was widely shared. I was also just looking at the 'regular people' tab without verified accounts and saw many, many, many accounts tweeting the same "double your bitcoin" link, with the same BTC address. These weren't retweets. I'd assumed these accounts had also been compromised - was I wrong? It was far more than 130 accounts.
Or was this just people copying and pasting the same message (if so why that rather than retweet)? There were so many every few seconds I assumed it was a script just running through accounts. But --- if it wasn't, what were people hoping to gain? Views on their own profile?
- adriancooney 6y agoYes! I’m confused at what the automated attack was about. Possibly botnets tweeting it to distract from the real account access or to make the attack look worse than it was?
- famouslastwords 6y ago>Or was this just people copying and pasting the same message (if so why that rather than retweet)? There were so many every few seconds I assumed it was a script just running through accounts. But --- if it wasn't, what were people hoping to gain? Views on their own profile? Cashing in on the public attention. Social media is filled with people who would debase themselves for a little bit of attention or likes. The hack caused a lot of uproar, what better way than pretending you're were high-profile enough to be hacked too?