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

[estenity]

somewhat disturbing origin evoked:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nyt-interviews-4-twenty-somethings-who-claim-responsibility-twitter-hack

[bbc.reporter]

@estenity. That might only be another false flag, I reckon.

I speculate that the hackers were there for months and already gathering intelligence. After getting what they wanted they used cryptoforhealth as their warning to let someone know that they have gotten the information they wanted.

I am quite certain that this is not a bitcoin scam hack.

[alani123]

It's unbelievable how bad the security of these crypto-related accounts must have been. A simple 2FA device would have likely prevented this.
I could see them receiving more liability if the hackers aren't found here.
Many of these Twitter accounts are followed by people that aren't well versed or very knowledgeable with into crypto and just want some news. Holding crypto doesn't mean you're an expert.
The accounts of big companies are trusted by many people uncritically for what they post... They should have invested in better security. Not that it's hard to secure a twitter account.

[btc78]

So many posts about the twitter hacking issue do we have result regarding the investigation from the twitter company?

anyway this is one of the biggest issue now specially this happens because of the incoming Presidential election of USA.

What I want to know: was the exploit fixed? The Twitter security flaw closed off??

If not this will just continue happening.

Well the recent news is twitter had already banned temporarily those account that involve but other than that?none

[AniviaBtc]

This is such a massive account hacking to a high profile accounts, that even the personalities from the music industry was also included, and the political figures as well.
But, it's too dumb for the people to believe such fake generosity, that If you send Btc to a certain address it will return double. Most likely, a smart person's response would be like to confirm whether the tweet was legit or an account was being compromised by hackers.

When it comes to social media platforms, if you got hacked, no one is safe, no one is exempted. All of us can be possibly hacked because criminal people like those scammers will do anything just to earn money and fool people. There's no such thing that people will give you btc for free or they will double it instantly.

This is going to have a bad impact on Twitter in general.

They should improve their security more, because this events can make people who are accessing their platfrom to become scared to those hackers. They should prioritize the safety and security of the people because it can make a people's life become miserable due to scams and false tweets.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

There is a good write-up and detailed timeline of the events:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZpIzc1Z2i9zcRlS89Qpd7CYD0IEICNXO6prbmgbnvNk/edit?ts=5f0faf8d&pli=1#gid=0

And post-mortem:

https://medium.com/mycrypto/the-twitterhack-postmortem-423510de54a1

[FatFork]

It's unbelievable how bad the security of these crypto-related accounts must have been. A simple 2FA device would have likely prevented this.
I could see them receiving more liability if the hackers aren't found here.

Where did you get the idea that individual accounts were hacked? If it was, as reported, an inside-job attack, no security settings on the user side would have any effect.
Twitter's support team said "We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools".
And if you followed the news, you could see that it’s not just crypto-related accounts that were compromised. Many prominent handles were affected as well, such as, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and others... I doubt that none of them had 2FA enabled.

[Yaunfitda]

If investigators wanted to know where to start, maybe they should read this article,

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html

The interviews indicate that the attack was not the work of a single country like Russia or a sophisticated group of hackers. Instead, it was done by a group of young people — one of whom says he lives at home with his mother — who got to know one another because of their obsession with owning early or unusual screen names, particularly one letter or number, like @y or @6.

The Times verified that the four people were connected to the hack by matching their social media and cryptocurrency accounts to accounts that were involved with the events on Wednesday. They also presented corroborating evidence of their involvement, like the logs from their conversations on Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers and hackers, and Twitter.

Playing a central role in the attack was Kirk, who was taking money in and out of the same Bitcoin address as the day went on, according to an analysis of the Bitcoin transactions by The Times, with assistance from the research firm Chainalysis.

But the identity of Kirk, his motivation and whether he shared his access to Twitter with anyone else remain a mystery even to the people who worked with him. It is still unclear how much Kirk used his access to the accounts of people like Mr. Biden and Mr. Musk to gain more privileged information, like their private conversations on Twitter.

The hacker “lol” and another one he worked with, who went by the screen name “ever so anxious,” told The Times that they wanted to talk about their work with Kirk in order to prove that they had only facilitated the purchases and takeovers of lesser-known Twitter addresses early in the day. They said they had not continued to work with Kirk once he began more high-profile attacks around 3:30 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday.

“I just wanted to tell you my story because i think you might be able to clear some thing up about me and ever so anxious,” “lol” said in a chat on Discord, where he shared all the logs of his conversation with Kirk and proved his ownership of the cryptocurrency accounts he used to transact with Kirk.

“lol” did not confirm his real-world identity, but said he lived on the West Coast and was in his 20s. “ever so anxious” said he was 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother.

Investigators looking into the attacks said several of the details given by the hackers lined up with what they have learned so far, including Kirk’s involvement both in the big hacks later in the day and the lower-profile attacks early on Wednesday.

The Times was initially put in touch with the hackers by a security researcher in California, Haseeb Awan, who was communicating with them because, he said, a number of them had previously targeted him and a Bitcoin-related company he once owned. They also unsuccessfully targeted his current company, Efani, a secure phone provider.

So if this is true, I maybe wrong with my impression that the hackers come from a well coordinate group. But according to this article, it was pull by some kid who still lives with their mom and was a teen-ager.

[estenity]

too big operation for small profit, a presently questionable media (NYT) interferes.

[gentlemand]

So if this is true, I maybe wrong with my impression that the hackers come from a well coordinate group. But according to this article, it was pull by some kid who still lives with their mom and was a teen-ager.

The MO is so stupid and the opportunity it presented was so resoundingly squandered that that makes perfect sense. Someone with more intelligence and motivation could've made much, much more of it.

I presume they'll all claim to be autistic so they didn't understand what they were actually doing and will be too fragile to be extradited to spend the rest of their lives being tortured in a shipping container by Homeland Security. I would too.

[FatFork]

So if this is true, I maybe wrong with my impression that the hackers come from a well coordinate group. But according to this article, it was pull by some kid who still lives with their mom and was a teen-ager.

The MO is so stupid and the opportunity it presented was so resoundingly squandered that that makes perfect sense. Someone with more intelligence and motivation could've made much, much more of it.

Either way, I blame Twitter. It is unacceptable to have so much power in the hands of just one employee if the rumors are confirmed. There are countless ways to manipulate people; social engineering, financial incentives, extortion by threats, ... to name a few. It amazes me that a platform like Twitter didn’t have better security measures in cases like this.

I presume they'll all claim to be autistic so they didn't understand what they were actually doing and will be too fragile to be extradited to spend the rest of their lives being tortured in a shipping container by Homeland Security. I would too.

I don't know. They were smart enough not to hijack Trump's account.

[bbc.reporter]

It's unbelievable how bad the security of these crypto-related accounts must have been. A simple 2FA device would have likely prevented this.
I could see them receiving more liability if the hackers aren't found here.
Many of these Twitter accounts are followed by people that aren't well versed or very knowledgeable with into crypto and just want some news. Holding crypto doesn't mean you're an expert.
The accounts of big companies are trusted by many people uncritically for what they post... They should have invested in better security. Not that it's hard to secure a twitter account.

According to some news articles it appeared that the hackers bypassed 2fa. Also, do you reckon Twitter accounts of a former American president, a CEO of SpaceX and Apple do not have 2fa? This would be naive.

I speculate that Jack Dorsey might not have full control of his company.

[MCobian]

Regarding the famous account twitter hacked being talked about, it is true that not all accounts hacked are related to cryptocurrency.
But many people focus on crypto related Twitter accounts, maybe many of the victims are from the crypto community. Twitter is now
investigating this incident, hopefully the cause can be known. But I agree with most people, that there are inside people on Twitter
involved. Because famous accounts are the average victims have good security, this hacker can easily do it. I'm sure someone inside
gave the hackers access, but let's we wait for the results of the investigation carried out by Twitter.

[shoreno]

Regarding the famous account twitter hacked being talked about, it is true that not all accounts hacked are related to cryptocurrency.
But many people focus on crypto related Twitter accounts, maybe many of the victims are from the crypto community. Twitter is now
investigating this incident, hopefully the cause can be known. But I agree with most people, that there are inside people on Twitter
involved. Because famous accounts are the average victims have good security, this hacker can easily do it. I'm sure someone inside
gave the hackers access, but let's we wait for the results of the investigation carried out by Twitter.

if thats the case ( inside job ) then that only shows that twitter is not trusted  . people are going to alarm now and will possibly leave twitter for good  . ther are non crypto accounts that have been hacked but that was before but by this news alone i havent see that they report non crypto accounts were hacked along with the crypto related one  . thats verry clear that hackers only wanted to steal crypto or destroy its reputation   . the root caused of the hack is said to be started on twitters api 

[spike420211]

The most surprising thing about this story for me is how quickly people were ready to part with their money for a rather controversial adventure.
There are hundreds of similar scams, they are all the same.

The hackers didn't even decide to invent anything new, but used a completely old and hackneyed scheme. Nevertheless, they earned 100 thousand dollars.
The question is why people still do not think with their own heads?

[stiffbud]

The most surprising thing about this story for me is how quickly people were ready to part with their money for a rather controversial adventure.
There are hundreds of similar scams, they are all the same.

The hackers didn't even decide to invent anything new, but used a completely old and hackneyed scheme. Nevertheless, they earned 100 thousand dollars.
The question is why people still do not think with their own heads?

No one was given enough time to rethink about it. Only half an hour was the upper time limit, bitcoin transactions usually take longer than that to get confirmed, so people were in a hurry to double up their money and in the end they got scammed. Moreover as more than one account was having the same tweet and all were verified accounts which added more credibility to this scam. Scammers are finding new ways to steal our money and but since these twitter scams are running from quiet a lot of time any veteran could have seen the truth behind it, if bitcoins were being given away then the verified account could have just asked the address, why they had to make the user send money to them on a promise to return double money back.

[shield132]

Haha, sounds curious, waiting for to see their bitcoin adresses hacked (but oops, it sounds scary for everyone). Curious fact is that when facebook had some shutdown problems, everyone was twitting: That's why you have to forget fb and stick with twitter, it's absolutely better platform. Would love to see their answer on this accident.
I think this was done from someone who works for twitter, most of the times nice guys are bad guys and always, smart people are the ones who have a power to destroy everything.

Btw this was very curious

"Everyone is asking me to give back," a tweet from Mr Gates' account said. "You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000."

[jademaxsuy]

Wow, thank you for this info. Scammer were really getting fired up in scamming. They were already too smart now in scamming. Imagine they could trick us using a phishing malware disguise as an update for anti-virus or something that could disguise the system. This is very dangerous actually if you are holding huge coins and then eventually getting scam transferring your coins from your wallet to another wallet.

Anyway, is there any idea regarding on other social media?  I think I have seen a bunch of possible phishing system I  just going to check it if I more time.

[bbc.reporter]

Regarding the famous account twitter hacked being talked about, it is true that not all accounts hacked are related to cryptocurrency.
But many people focus on crypto related Twitter accounts, maybe many of the victims are from the crypto community. Twitter is now
investigating this incident, hopefully the cause can be known. But I agree with most people, that there are inside people on Twitter
involved. Because famous accounts are the average victims have good security, this hacker can easily do it. I'm sure someone inside
gave the hackers access, but let's we wait for the results of the investigation carried out by Twitter.

It might also be that there are many someone inside on different tech companies who might have already been compromised by a certain foreign communist country hehehe.

I speculate that many American companies, schools, the media and also the government might have been infiltrated already. It is dividing America.

[South Park]

Quite funny how some people fell for this, they just rushed and sent money to these scammers without asking questions at least. People are always in a hurry to make money they forget to be careful and at the end they are misled. Even if all these cryptocurrency websites or organization wants to do such a thing they wouldn’t be asking you to send them cryptocurrency to double it for you, this is not a casino lol.

This is even a old strategy that is being used by scammers. I hope this experience is enough and people who fell for it have learned to be careful next time. Until we people learn and being careful, those hackers and scammer will keep attempting in all possible means to make us fall as prey for them. So, just ignoring all non-realistic tweets which are even from well recognized people will help us.

This is why people keep falling into these scams, a scam is a scam regardless of who is making the scam, whether that person is a friend, wearing a nice suit, or as in this case some of the accounts of very powerful people or businesses, anyone that has the idea of becoming an investor or trader needs to do everything to avoid losing their money in such a way and this means learning the most common scams in the market but this takes time and it is boring and as such most people refuse to do it.