Warning: crypto related twitter accounts (Binance, Bitcoin, TRON, &more) hacked

[DaCryptoRaccoon]

It's looking highly possible the twitter platform was compromised at the highest level even the official twitter account had been changed and posted something.

This is not looking good for twitter.

[TravelMug]

I smell a false flag here.

Accounts with millions of followers , Obama, Biden, Gates, Musk, Bezos involved. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bill-gates-elon-musk-twitter-accounts-hacked-nigerian-bitcoin-scam-over-53000-stolen

Who will be painted as the baddie here?

Yep you guessed it BITCOIN, criminals fleecing unsuspecting saps, it needs to be banned/brought under strict control will be the call all over the bought and paid for mainstream media

Nah, it was the platform that was hacked so I don't think that it will have a big impact on bitcoin. Besides, this is not the first time that we have seen bitcoin being used by criminals, so I don't think that the narrative behind this hacks will focus on bitcoin but more on Twitter itself. They are a social platform offering service to their customers, so where is the security?? And as I have in the other thread, there's a possibility that Twitter will be liable, specially that those involved are high profile accounts.

And Jack is a pro-bitcoiner.

[my dream2021]

This is an unbelievably news that they have successfully hacked Twitter accounts of famous and important people at the same time.
This is new, I never see kind of like this before on my life, I am also surprised why people still believe in "send xxxBtc and get 2x" after several times that happened before and people get scam.


I saw some people try to looking at whois

$ whois cryptoforhealth.com   <------ CAUTION. This is a maybe malware site - do NOT click
   Domain Name: CRYPTOFORHEALTH.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 2546217275_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namesilo.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.namesilo.com
   Updated Date: 2020-07-15T17:42:28Z
   Creation Date: 2020-07-15T17:36:34Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2021-07-15T17:36:34Z
   Registrar: NameSilo, LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 1479
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namesilo.com
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4805240066
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: MAYA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
   Name Server: PHIL.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2020-07-15T19:44:29Z <<<

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Code:

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
Domain Name: cryptoforhealth.com     <------ CAUTION. This is a maybe malware site - do NOT click
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namesilo.com
Registrar URL: https://www.namesilo.com/
Updated Date: 2020-07-15T07:00:00Z
Creation Date: 2020-07-15T07:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-07-15T07:00:00Z
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Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4805240066
Reseller: QHOSTER.COM
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Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: anthony elias
Registrant Organization:
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Registrant City: Vacaville
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Name Server: MAYA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
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DNSSEC: unsigned
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>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2020-07-15T07:00:00Z <<<
 
For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp

[suzanne5223]

I can’t believe someone is still falling for such classic scams...

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

People, don't be naive! No one will send you back double.

You said that because you have total understanding about this kind of scam because youre aware of the strategy used by scammers and i dont blame those that sent BTC to the address because it will be hard for people to believe someone like Elon, Bill, Kanye West and Big exchange will lied about giveaway bitcoin during this pandemic season.
The hackers knew people will fall for it.

[Darker45]

The choice of accounts was a mixture of crypto personalities, some big names in politics, some in technology, and some celebrities. No wonder why more than a hundred dollars in BTC was already obtained by the hackers in a matter of hours.

Meanwhile, someone made 7 separate transactions to the address used in the hacking in order to send a message which promotes Monero (XMR).


Image grabbed from https://s3.cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/4dc22b3a030b2a70120f275567fbd2dc.png

[posi]

The first number one thing i hated about this issue is that it may make the government to raise some new restrictions on crypto and exchange site.
Nevertheless, i believe people shouldn't rely on twitter much bea couplecause the have proven not to be a secure social media site for acouple of years alot of crypto investors was scammed, last year August it was twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey that was hacked and this year alot of celebrities, crypto enthusiasts/exchange and political leader account were hacked.

[KrisAlex18]

Obviously, it is a phishing scam, do not ever click the link given by those twitter accounts, those are big names and well known by all the bitcoin user. Good thing is that the OP had warned us about this thing, do not be trapped by that, we can use social media for spreading information about this because not all bitcoin user is here with this forum. For sure there are already many comments on the post saying about the scam. Hoping that they will recover their twitter account as soon as possible because we really need them for some important announcement.

How this actually happened any official announcement from anyone?

I wonder how many people got already affected by it as this is from all official accounts 

Maybe there are already many people who became victims with that scam because even those big people get scammed as well, what more for those ordinary people.

[Myleschetty]

The choice of accounts was a mixture of crypto personalities, some big names in politics, some in technology, and some celebrities. No wonder why more than a hundred dollars in BTC was already obtained by the hackers in a matter of hours.

Meanwhile, someone made 7 separate transactions to the address used in the hacking in order to send a message which promotes Monero (XMR).


Image grabbed from https://s3.cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/4dc22b3a030b2a70120f275567fbd2dc.png

I think this is a long time and well planned scam attack but what i still don't understand is that people still send BTC during the time of posting this message to the address despite the wallet been reported for a scam.

[maxreish]

Not just the crypto exchanges but hackers also hacked famous crypto enthusiasts personalities like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, etc.

Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other high-profile Twitter accounts were the target of a widespread hack to offer fake bitcoin deals Wednesday in one of the most prominent security breaches on a social media site.

They are doing some fake giveaway and doubling btc. With all those ongoing hacks with twitter, glad that twitter is doing actions immediately about it to prevent those hackers to scam more twitter users.

[stompix]

Some BTC address that was published as part of the scam has already received over 5 BTC 12 BTC since the hacking of the twitter accounts. I can’t believe someone is still falling for such classic scams...

I doubt that number, some transactions have been started well after the tweets have been deleted and I have a weird feeling I've seen the same amount of around ~12 BTC in the last doubling scam, I'll check my post history since at that time I watched the addresses more carefully and they were simply swapping money across to inflate the numbers.

The choice of accounts was a mixture of crypto personalities, some big names in politics, some in technology, and some celebrities. No wonder why more than a hundred dollars in BTC was already obtained by the hackers in a matter of hours.

I find it weird that a person smart enough to launch such an attack and which spent quite a lot of time planning it resorted in the end with all that knowledge to a stupid doubling scam, which I doubt it earned him that much money. Total waste of brain cells.

[FatFork]

Some BTC address that was published as part of the scam has already received over 5 BTC 12 BTC since the hacking of the twitter accounts. I can’t believe someone is still falling for such classic scams...

I doubt that number, some transactions have been started well after the tweets have been deleted and I have a weird feeling I've seen the same amount of around ~12 BTC in the last doubling scam, I'll check my post history since at that time I watched the addresses more carefully and they were simply swapping money across to inflate the numbers.

You might be right. There were tweets from @chainalysis that they used multiple addresses for scam. Although I only saw one.

Unsurprisingly, the hackers used some of the funds from the different scam addresses to pay into their main collection address to make it seem like more people are participating and benefiting from the scam.

source: https://twitter.com/chainalysis/status/1283576353418338306?s=20

I find it weird that a person smart enough to launch such an attack and which spent quite a lot of time planning it resorted in the end with all that knowledge to a stupid doubling scam, which I doubt it earned him that much money. Total waste of brain cells.

There are some rumors circulating on twitter that the scam was just a cover for something else. For example, stealing direct messages from users, destroying twitter's reputation or something like that.

[imstillthebest]

Not just the crypto exchanges but hackers also hacked famous crypto enthusiasts personalities like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, etc.

Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other high-profile Twitter accounts were the target of a widespread hack to offer fake bitcoin deals Wednesday in one of the most prominent security breaches on a social media site.

They are doing some fake giveaway and doubling btc. With all those ongoing hacks with twitter, glad that twitter is doing actions immediately about it to prevent those hackers to scam more twitter users.

thats a good news there from twitter . they should put some red tags saying the account is likely hacked till the real owner show some proof that he really owns the account .  hackings like this is new to me and its so bad because it does not only make cryptos bad to the new users  but it also gives fales information to the existing users like for example when we are investing/trading a coin and we follow the exchanges account . we arent done with the other issue but another new issue add up , ugh fck .

[shata]

Latest news from cointelegraph, hackers consolidated 14.75 BTC worth $135,000. According to the news, its a bit difficult to trace the address compared to hacks before as the change addresses is always of different input.  However, the address used was found out to sent money earlier from Bitpay to coinbase (Cointelegraph).

Although, hackers compromised most of the profiled personality in twitter, the attack still didn't end up millions on their wallets anyway. So no panic about sudden price fall to btc market .

In addition, I found this somehow agreeable!

I find it weird that a person smart enough to launch such an attack and which spent quite a lot of time planning it resorted in the end with all that knowledge to a stupid doubling scam, which I doubt it earned him that much money. Total waste of brain cells

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/twitter-hackers-caught-using-bitpay-and-coinbase-on-hack-related-wallet

[Darker45]

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I think this is a long time and well planned scam attack but what i still don't understand is that people still send BTC during the time of posting this message to the address despite the wallet been reported for a scam.

There will always be preys that is why predators exist until now. Sometimes even the most stupid of scams would still yield enough victims. It is unbelievable for me to imagine how people would fall for Barack Obama asking for Bitcoin over twitter.

The choice of accounts was a mixture of crypto personalities, some big names in politics, some in technology, and some celebrities. No wonder why more than a hundred dollars in BTC was already obtained by the hackers in a matter of hours.

I find it weird that a person smart enough to launch such an attack and which spent quite a lot of time planning it resorted in the end with all that knowledge to a stupid doubling scam, which I doubt it earned him that much money. Total waste of brain cells.

Whatever kind of scam one comes up, whether it is more sophisticated than others, that is still a total waste of brain cells. They could have just used those skills doing something right.

That is indeed a low-level type of scam. But, as I've said above, even an unbelievably obvious scam would still convince a lot of people.

[theymos]

Twitter called it a "social engineering attack", which makes me think that it was something simple like: the attacker called Twitter support, said, "Hey, it's <Elon Musk / Bill Gates / etc.>. Wouldn't you know it, I lost my 2FA device and my password. Could you help me?" And then the Twitter support person was like, "Sure, just give me your birthday for verification and I'll have this fixed right away, sorry for the inconvenience!"

Support people want to help the person they're talking to as quickly as possible. They're usually the weakest link, not any technical flaw. You see this same sort of social engineering used in SIM swapping attacks, common against Bitcoiners. (There's a victim of SIM swapping on the front page of /r/Bitcoin right now.)

There are some rumors circulating on twitter that the scam was just a cover for something else. For example, stealing direct messages from users, destroying twitter's reputation or something like that.

The DMs from all of those people might indeed be worth more than the $100k he got from the simple doubling scam.

[South Park]

The DMs from all of those people might indeed be worth more than the $100k he got from the simple doubling scam.

While true I cannot help but wonder are people that dense? Do they really think the stored information they have on those social media sites is safe enough to the point they are willing to store important information there? I could understand a normal person doing it, after all what is the biggest secret an average person will hold? At worst they are cheating on their partner or something, but for those personalities that have access to privileged information storing anything important on those platforms is just asking for trouble and could comeback to kick their butts on the future.

[sheenshane]

What the fuck just happened? This is a massive breached, or shall I shall heist at the highest level. Jack has a lot of explaining to do specially to those billionaires and them investors.

Actually, that is because of greed they had and now, they don't have nothing because they believed in "send you Bitcoin and we will send it back double".
They might learn with this now that everything is not safe and might have breach by hackers, even the most powerful social media. So, what next? FaceBook? Lol.

Here what they got!

#ctto

I don't know how those victims felt right now after they'd scammed, are they angry and blaming twitter company or the hacker, the one who hacked them!

[Sanugarid]

That's insane, how can he hacked multiple account is it more on the users to blame or the social media platform itself ?

As if he is only a person, maybe this is a group hmm. But actually this is easy for a pro hacker/scammer since this is twitter, I mean this is decentralized platform and there have been cases like this in the past.

I would understand if its just dummy accounts newly created but this and official accounts of the most renowned Crypto companies hacked. Its a miracle that no one got scammed at this point.

No one got scammed? As far as I know there are people who sent bitcoins for the displayed address on the posts. The link was already flagged as phishing, can't visit it anymore, this a good thing.

This is a very big news, multiple popular accounts were hacked for bitcoin scam haha bitcoin is everywhere again. I see this as good thing for bitcoin, tho it was made badly still a stunt!

[BrewMaster]

The DMs from all of those people might indeed be worth more than the $100k he got from the simple doubling scam.

true but i seriously doubt they got that much money out of the scam. i said this in the other topic too, the amount placed in those addresses is like the beggars who put the first dollar in their bowl to make people feel safe giving up their money...

[Twentyonepaylots]

I smell a false flag here.

Accounts with millions of followers , Obama, Biden, Gates, Musk, Bezos involved. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bill-gates-elon-musk-twitter-accounts-hacked-nigerian-bitcoin-scam-over-53000-stolen

Who will be painted as the baddie here?

Yep you guessed it BITCOIN, criminals fleecing unsuspecting saps, it needs to be banned/brought under strict control will be the call all over the bought and paid for mainstream media

Nah, it was the platform that was hacked so I don't think that it will have a big impact on bitcoin. Besides, this is not the first time that we have seen bitcoin being used by criminals, so I don't think that the narrative behind this hacks will focus on bitcoin but more on Twitter itself. They are a social platform offering service to their customers, so where is the security?? And as I have in the other thread, there's a possibility that Twitter will be liable, specially that those involved are high profile accounts.

And Jack is a pro-bitcoiner.

Both twitter and bitcoin is on fire here, not just the other way around but the effect on bitcoin will be huge since this is the reason why there was a breaching in the first place to scam people using bitcoin. Now I'm thinking how many people are flagging bitcoin as false instrument for investment. I'm quite in doubt with the number of accounts that has been hacked, how did they do it? How about their 2FA authenticator?

What @theymos have concluded might just happened without authenticating the caller.  twitter support