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0 pointsemiliobumachar5y ago0 comments

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."

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Scoundreller5y ago

Apple was interesting because they have 3.8m followers and zero tweets. Maybe they've never tweeted. But today they did.

SahAssar5y ago

Someone in this thread said their tweets don't show up in their timeline because they usually promote their tweets.

hombre_fatal5y 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.

bmarquez5y 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-em...

solarkraft5y ago

I find it interesting that this kind of protection isn't the default.

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VectorLock5y 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.

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