Twitter Hack Alert - Don't trust it now!

[notblox1]

It is obvious that we need some kind of decentralized social network without single point of failure.
Only disasters like this thing that happened to twitter will make people think differently.
Same thing can happen to any service with centralized servers.
Insider job.

Recent news says that hackers convinced twitter employee to help them:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos

[yazher]

This will become one of the worst hacking histories on Twitter and if it's gonna damaged someone's reputation, they will be the one who gonna compensate it. I don't know how the laws work with this kind of thing but let's wait for twitter's official announcement regarding this issue. I hope no one had fallen to this kind of crap or the problem will be getting worse. When I saw Bill Gates has post this offer on how twitter page it triggers on my mind that this is no doubt a scam attempt and a massive hacking event on Twitter.

[Erumo]

First social network, that fell under attacks of hackers was youtube, now twitter. Which is going to be next? I predict Instagram. Facebook is not quite popular among celebrities or famous people, tiktok is to "strange" to advertise or ask anything there, so Instagram is the only one left.

[minairia3]

First and foremost, just remember nobody's giving you free money for nothing. If you see offers that are too good to be true, they really are so just don't bother with them. Giveaways don't ask you for money (unless there's an entry price).

Its actually tempting since the tweet comes from huge people in the industry and even recognized one. Sad to say, that victims of this hacked are really suffer from a coordinated scheme.

Why would CZ asked for bitcoin and doubtly he will doubled the sent amount. Its not his routine and even those used names are not even into cryptocurrency.

Twitter should compensate these people who did send. Its their credibility at stake now.

[bakasabo]

Twitter should compensate these people who did send. Its their credibility at stake now.

Why would Twitter do that? They have sent their money by their own greedy decision. It is like asking for a compensation from a food manufacturer, when you dont like how restaurant prepared your meal. No one forced people to send money. When you see an ad on TV-shop saying "Buy this product, it has a discount only today!", do you immediately pick up a phone to make an order?

If they can prove, that hackers got other account owners personal info (passwords) by twitters security breach, than they can at least hope on something. But I'm sure that twitter layers will win case in any scenario. No one forced people to send money.

[Husires]

Why would CZ asked for bitcoin and doubtly he will doubled the sent amount. Its not his routine and even those used names are not even into cryptocurrency.

people are crazy and they might make unexpected tweets, Elon Musk, someone. I will believe that he doubles bitcoin if he tweets from his authenticated account, few people will do that, and some of them may be tempted to do it with small amounts.
hackers will cause losses to Twitter and will force them to change some of their rules
it may be a warning about continuing the same technical policy that you do.
This attack may have some political and economic implications more than a sabotage attack.

[TryNinja]

Why would Twitter do that? They have sent their money by their own greedy decision. It is like asking for a compensation from a food manufacturer, when you dont like how restaurant prepared your meal. No one forced people to send money. When you see an ad on TV-shop saying "Buy this product, it has a discount only today!", do you immediately pick up a phone to make an order?

Where in the world, when the meal comes in a bad way, you can't get a refund or a compensation? If you find a strand of hair in your soup, you can ask for a refund (or at least a dessert). But yes, there will be no compensation, even though your comparison doesn't make too much sense.

If they can prove, that hackers got other account owners personal info (passwords) by twitters security breach, than they can at least hope on something. But I'm sure that twitter layers will win case in any scenario. No one forced people to send money.

Twitter already said that their investigation shows the 'hackers' got access to some Twitter's internal tools by social engineering their employees, so 100% their fault. If this happened with an exchange, and not with a social network, they could have been in more trouble (e.g, if people send money directly from their accounts, they would probably need to reverse them or compensate people that sent the money).

[minairia3]

Why would Twitter do that? They have sent their money by their own greedy decision. It is like asking for a compensation from a food manufacturer, when you dont like how restaurant prepared your meal. No one forced people to send money.

I dont think thats greed, people tends to like some giveaway in any means. Its just like this case is more senstive. You know those personalities tweeted are all trusted right? They just dont know that it was hacked. How can you blame them and call them greedy.

If they can prove, that hackers got other account owners personal info (passwords) by twitters security breach, than they can at least hope on something. But I'm sure that twitter layers will win case in any scenario. No one forced people to send money.

Its proven and they admit it that the problem occur on their end. Just like what TryNinja said, there is still some fault on their side which I believe people who suffer from attack at least be compensated.

No one force people to send money, right. But the material or reason why they send it is due to Twitter legit tweet from personalities. Im sure they aware if the one who announced it is fake and why the hell they would send, but in this case its the original like CZ accounts. He normally do some surprise giveaway, people got attracted cause its Cz itself that posted it.

[tbct_mt2]

It is the side of Twitter with their loopholes for attackers to compromise prestigious accounts on their platform. On the other hand, such scam method is not new and it is applied from platform to platform.

The easy point to realise that they are scam efforts is people have to go first with some kind of funds. It is stupid to believe in such giveway that required mandatory deposits.

There are some past scams on Youtube later last year.
Scammers on Youtube. Don't fall into this scam trap and lose money, guys
Youtube scam channels. Please spend your time to report them and take them down

[cheezcarls]

Please everyone pay attention and don't trust anything you read in Twitter now.
It appears that in has been compromised and all big accounts are hacked and posting random fake giveaways.

More information in scam accusation topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5262439

Don't click any links in Twitter now!

Twitter accounts hacked so far:
- Bitcoin
- Elonmusk
- Tron
- Ripple
- Justin Sun
- Bill gates
- Coindesk
- CZ_Binance
- Gemini
- Kucoin
- Gate .io
- Coinbase
- Binance
- JeffBezos
- JoeBiden
- BarrackObama
- BillGates
- TwitterSupport

and more...

I knew there’s something wrong when I saw that “hacked tweet” from Elon Musk. Twitter is responsible for this mess and they should double down their security measures. This is why centralised platforms are vulnerable to hacking or getting compromised.

Decentralization is the key for platforms that the hackers and intruders would find it hard to breach their system. If the only way to access social media platform is through private key that you own and in a non-custodial manner, then rest assure that your account would be safe.

I bet some startups out there are encouraging themselves to start their own decentralized social network or microblogging platform. Just my opinion.

[bakasabo]

Why would Twitter do that? They have sent their money by their own greedy decision. It is like asking for a compensation from a food manufacturer, when you dont like how restaurant prepared your meal. No one forced people to send money. When you see an ad on TV-shop saying "Buy this product, it has a discount only today!", do you immediately pick up a phone to make an order?

Where in the world, when the meal comes in a bad way, you can't get a refund or a compensation? If you find a strand of hair in your soup, you can ask for a refund (or at least a dessert). But yes, there will be no compensation, even though your comparison doesn't make too much sense.

Yes, you could ask for a compensation, from a restaurant (twitter account, which posted fake giveaway tweet - in our case), but not from a farmer, that delivered vegetables to the restaurant (twitter company as it self).

What twitter can do? Refund sent funds ? But how to prove a connection between twitter account and btc address (if only ask to sign a message).

I dont think thats greed, people tends to like some giveaway in any means.

"If you send me 1 bitcoin, I will send you 2 bitcoins back" - isnt participating in this kind of a trade may be considered as an act of greed?