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Is this what an actual cyberattack / cyberwar looks like? Imagine how much money is being lost right now as a result of this disruption. Somewhere hackers are
by cryoshon 11y ago
Is this what an actual cyberattack / cyberwar looks like?
Imagine how much money is being lost right now as a result of this disruption. Somewhere hackers are popping champagne.
- chatmasta 11y agoUAL stock took a $1 nosedive (hah) at 10am.
- glesica 11y agoFind out who made money by shorting it, there's your list of suspects, or at least co-conspirators (if this turns out to be a hack).
- caskance 11y agoOr people who use twitter and like to gamble.
- getsat 11y agoOr bots who subscribe to Twitter feeds and open trades based on sentiment
- chatmasta 11y agoIn that case the suspects could be the ones buying it after it dropped $1, since it went up afterward. As long as securities react to hacks, there will be a massive incentive to 1) hack, and 2) overstate the hack's significance. Furthermore, as bots become more sophisticated, confusing them becomes easier. If you know bots will short CompanyX when "CompanyX hacked" hits the headlines, then you have an unfair advantage just by being the first to know of the hack.
- glesica 11y agoThat's why I said "list of suspects" instead of "culprit".
- derwiki 11y agoWhy wouldn't the stock drop more?
- ianstallings 11y agoMore likely real hackers (programmers), working for united, were trying to roll out to production and experienced an issue.