Along with a bitcoin link address. Twitter says a hacking attack on employees was to blame for one of its biggest ever security lapses. Three individuals were arrested by authorities on.
They appeared to have used social engineering to gain access to the tools via twitter employees. Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to twitter s administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly. On july 15 2020 between 20 00 22 00 utc reportedly 130 high profile twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam.
If someone were to send bitcoin to the address specified in the tweets during a 30 minute window the account owner would return. Most of these accounts tweeted some variant of the same message. In return users were promised that their money would be.
The bitcoin scam saw dozens of high profile accounts send tweets urging users to transfer 1 000 794 with a link to a bitcoin address. Anderson for the northern district of california said in a news release. There is a false belief within the criminal hacker community that attacks like the twitter hack can be perpetrated anonymously and without consequence u s.
The tweets offered to send 2 000 for every 1 000 sent to an anonymous bitcoin address. Anderson for the northern district of california said in a news release. There is a false belief within the criminal hacker community that attacks like the twitter hack can be perpetrated anonymously and without consequence u s.
The tweets offered to send 2 000 for every 1 000 sent to an anonymous bitcoin address. Twitter previously said hackers managed to fool the social media company s employees into. The tweets offered to send 2 000 1 500 for every 1 000 750 sent to an anonymous bitcoin address.
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Bitcoin address twitter hack. Many popular twitter accounts have been hacked trying to convince people to send their bitcoin to the address bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh. This is a scam you will. Twitter appears to have banned bitcoin addresses from being posted on its platform after a major hack saw high profile accounts hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers.
Twitter appears to have banned bitcoin addresses from being posted on its platform after a major hack saw high profile accounts hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers. This is a scam you will. Many popular twitter accounts have been hacked trying to convince people to send their bitcoin to the address bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh.
