On going SCAM! Multiple popular crypto related twitter accounts hacked.

[logfiles]

In the last one hour, A number of popular crypto-related Twitter accounts have be hacked. A message about a partnership with a company called Crypto For Health appears on the Twitter accounts of some leading crypto companies.
The hacked accounts so far are That of
1. Binance
2. Coinbase
3. Kucoin
4. Gemini
5. TRON Foundation
6. CZ Binance
7. Charlie Lee [LTC
8. Bitfinex
9. Justin Sun
10. Ripple
11. Elon Musk

Some screenshots of posts of hacked accounts


Image source: coindesk.com

More details in this article: https://cryptopotato.com/breaking-scam-alert-binance-coinbase-and-other-major-crypto-twitter-accounts-hacked/

The scammer's address has so far collected 2.80969451 BTC / 25,981.47 USD

How the hell did this attacks happen?  

[Findingnemo]

12.84 BTC received at the moment which values more than 110K in dollars, but the address has only 0.009 BTC left so they keep moving all the received funds.

Is there any response from Twitter side about these mass hack of crypto related platforms?

[Coin_trader]

12.84 BTC received at the moment which values more than 110K in dollars, but the address has only 0.009 BTC left so they keep moving all the received funds.

Is there any response from Twitter side about these mass hack of crypto related platforms?

That's huge amount of money. I wonder who will be responsible in case victim complains about fund. This twitter account was verified and I believe victim will surely believe on this scheme even though the website looks an obvious scam. The website is currently marked as phishing website which appear before you access the website. So I think no more victim should be add to the list.

Twitter account that listed above has a strong security. How come this hacker have access on it. Maybe an inside job from twitter employee? What do you think?

[Findingnemo]

Twitter account that listed above has a strong security. How come this hacker have access on it. Maybe an inside job from twitter employee? What do you think?

I don't think this is an insider's job, if someone from twitter done this then they will get caught easily so these are done by the real hackers who knows how to breach the strong security features.But why recovering the hacked accounts doesn't take place yet it should have been done in real quick to save people.

[Darker45]

The twitter accounts hacked included crypto related accounts as well as accounts of some celebrities and other popular personalities in business and politics.

Prominent accounts targeted in the Twitter attack included Joe Biden, Elon Musk, George Wallace, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg, Barack Obama, and Jeff Bezos.

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For now, there is still no official Twitter statement on how the attack was done although some security experts are saying that the hackers attacked and taken over the individual accounts and even changed the email addresses linked to these accounts.
 
[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/hidden-messages-found-in-transactions-to-twitter-hack-bitcoin-address

[crwth]

I'm surprised that people have that extra crypto to donate to that scam attempt and have received a lot of BTC too.

Maybe people are feeling good to help as well, and it's their generosity that may be considered sending that crypto. Since the best exchanges "official twitter accounts" have tweeted that (I checked the accounts, but the tweet doesn't exist anymore), it made them feel comfortable knowing that they have so-called "partnered" with that website.

I don't know how they got access to those well-secured accounts, just like what they said they have 2FA, etc. It's still a mystery, I hope there are some updates with that and be vigilant

[sheenshane]

Twitter account that listed above has a strong security. How come this hacker have access on it. Maybe an inside job from twitter employee? What do you think?

I don't think this is an insider's job, if someone from twitter done this then they will get caught easily so these are done by the real hackers who knows how to breach the strong security features.But why recovering the hacked accounts doesn't take place yet it should have been done in real quick to save people.

If you will check the Twitter Support I found tweeted sounds like, they are admitted that the attack happened comes from their social engineering personnel/staff that might the hackers use as a tool to access all those big companies twitter accounts.

12.84 BTC received at the moment which values more than 110K in dollars, but the address has only 0.009 BTC left so they keep moving all the received funds.

Yes, they moved the Bitcoin they'd collected little by little into different Bitcoin addresses and some are turned into small fractions. But I think it's not yet converted into fiat or other currency, they might use Bitcoin mixing service for the to have completely anonymity. I followed one big transaction that has 2 Bitcoin and landed into this Bitcoin wallet address.

Is there any response from Twitter side about these mass hack of crypto related platforms?

Of course, the twitter company, they had weak security and that's why they had been breached.

[anu1908]

I don't know how they got access to those well-secured accounts, just like what they said they have 2FA, etc. It's still a mystery,

most likely an api attacks. some twitter apps has the privileges to tweet in the user timeline, like those followed/unfollowed stats. so, most likely one of the apps was hacked or the hacker found a bug on the twitter api, and use it to spam the scam link to any user who use it.

[Findingnemo]

Luckily the incoming transactions into that address has stopped in the last few hours and I had seen a blog from coinbase official they really blocked every transaction from their wallet to that mentioned address.

[ultrloa]

In the last one hour, A number of popular crypto-related Twitter accounts have be hacked. A message about a partnership with a company called Crypto For Health appears on the Twitter accounts of some leading crypto companies.
The hacked accounts so far are That of
1. Binance
2. Coinbase
3. Kucoin
4. Gemini
5. TRON Foundation
6. CZ Binance
7. Charlie Lee [LTC
8. Bitfinex
9. Justin Sun
10. Ripple
11. Elon Musk

Some screenshots of posts of hacked accounts


More details in this article: https://cryptopotato.com/breaking-scam-alert-binance-coinbase-and-other-major-crypto-twitter-accounts-hacked/

The scammer's address has so far collected 2.80969451 BTC / 25,981.47 USD

How the hell did this attacks happen?  

This is so big hacking incident happen but the hacking is so wide since there are huge US personalities are included with the recent hacking of twitter accounts you can see it here https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822

And what is the saddest part here is the bitcoin itself called scam and might this will cause bad impact with bitcoins presence.

[Coin_trader]

Twitter account that listed above has a strong security. How come this hacker have access on it. Maybe an inside job from twitter employee? What do you think?

I don't think this is an insider's job, if someone from twitter done this then they will get caught easily so these are done by the real hackers who knows how to breach the strong security features.

This is a coordinated hacking and someone really inside the twitter company who tipped off the hacker outside. It's nearly impossible for a hacker to breach one the most secured system unless he has access from the engineering inside. And also it will not be an easy job to detect who do an inside job though because you will review ALL the employee.  

I don't know how they got access to those well-secured accounts, just like what they said they have 2FA, etc. It's still a mystery,

most likely an api attacks. some twitter apps has the privileges to tweet in the user timeline, like those followed/unfollowed stats. so, most likely one of the apps was hacked or the hacker found a bug on the twitter api, and use it to spam the scam link to any user who use it.

Do you think verified account like Biden and Elon Musk will click random spam link? This is not a simple hacking.

[actmyname]

Bigger problem is the fact that the situation is even possible: the fact that there is a tweet backdoor does not bode well for the future of Twitter, especially when we are concerned about legitimate and free thought... though I'm certain that censorship has gone on for many years whether the company would like to admit it or not.

This has little to do with the user's personal security: do you really think that this would happen without the inclusion of some Twitter-based flaw?

[Yogee]

.......
How the hell did this attacks happen? 

How the attacked happened:

"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," Twitter explained five hours into the incident investigation.

"We know they used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and tweet on their behalf. We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it."

- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/scammers-hacked-twitter-and-hijacked-accounts-using-admin-tool/

It's also possible that a twitter employee was knowingly or unknowingly working with the hackers.


Here's a screenshot of twitter's internal user admin panel shared by the hackers:



This is still unconfirmed by Twitter but it looks like they already disabled posting cryptocurrency addresses as a counter measure. That's definitely not going to prevent future hacks but it can be an inconvenience to them.
- I got the information from gentlemand's post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5262466.msg54809644#msg54809644

[Findingnemo]

 Definitely twitter is going to face lot of criticism due to this hack if they confirm it has been done by someone remotely that is why they are trying to blame the unknown employee to these hacks?

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Definitely twitter I going to face lot of criticism due to this hack if they confirm it has been done by someone remotely that is why they are trying to blame the unknown employee to these hacks?

It will be a backlash, not just coming from crypto enthusiast, but the people who got hack. Remember, those involved as some of the well known personalities around the world. If you read the bleepingcomputer article, A US senator already called Jack Dorsey to coordinate with FBI and DoJ to find the hackers and tell us what really happened. The only one to blame here is Twitter itself. But they have to find it out if this is a inside job or not and of course fire the employee.

[Findingnemo]

Definitely twitter I going to face lot of criticism due to this hack if they confirm it has been done by someone remotely that is why they are trying to blame the unknown employee to these hacks?

It will be a backlash, not just coming from crypto enthusiast, but the people who got hack. Remember, those involved as some of the well known personalities around the world. If you read the bleepingcomputer article, A US senator already called Jack Dorsey to coordinate with FBI and DoJ to find the hackers and tell us what really happened. The only one to blame here is Twitter itself. But they have to find it out if this is a inside job or not and of course fire the employee.

Am I the only one who doubts this is a cyber war financed by the Chinese government?

Because we know US is considering about banning Tiktok due to privacy issues so Chinese are trying to price American companies securities suck by hacking almost every popular individuals.

And also lot of Youtube accounts got hacked yesterday and starts live streaming about bitcoin,ethereum, Vechain giveaways.

[actmyname]

Am I the only one who doubts this is a cyber war financed by the Chinese government?

Because we know US is considering about banning Tiktok due to privacy issues so Chinese are trying to price American companies securities suck by hacking almost every popular individuals.

And also lot of Youtube accounts got hacked yesterday and starts live streaming about bitcoin,ethereum, Vechain giveaways.

YouTube accounts have been doing those scam streams for a very long time - if you think that's China, best take a seat and get used to the status quo! Though it's possible that it is a foreign power that is doing this kind of attack, I don't think it's wise to discount the very simple explanation of "some nerd found an exploit" because if you have ever worked as a programmer in a large company, then you know how trash things are. Who's to say that it wouldn't be like the Equifax incident? Someone fibbed something here, fucked something there, and then boom: huge problem.

[dunfida]

Am I the only one who doubts this is a cyber war financed by the Chinese government?

Because we know US is considering about banning Tiktok due to privacy issues so Chinese are trying to price American companies securities suck by hacking almost every popular individuals.

And also lot of Youtube accounts got hacked yesterday and starts live streaming about bitcoin,ethereum, Vechain giveaways.

YouTube accounts have been doing those scam streams for a very long time - if you think that's China, best take a seat and get used to the status quo! Though it's possible that it is a foreign power that is doing this kind of attack, I don't think it's wise to discount the very simple explanation of "some nerd found an exploit" because if you have ever worked as a programmer in a large company, then you know how trash things are. Who's to say that it wouldn't be like the Equifax incident? Someone fibbed something here, fucked something there, and then boom: huge problem.

Its not really that bad to give out some those possibilities though but it is way too far of to consider yet its better to stick out on the closest possible culprit on this one which i do highly agree on the explanation you had said. Lots of possible factors that do result into such breach of twitters security neither in back-end stuff or totally being affected by social engineering attacks - no one knows
but one things for sure that Twitters reputation is at stake on here and they do gradually look bad as this issue havent resolved yet.

[smyslov]

This is really bad we just found out that these social media account have a weak security and although they are making millions of dollars they are not investing more on security, or hackers are more sophisticated than their security it's really time to beef up their security

[akseur30]

I think this hack and steal of funds was done by an employee of Twitter that has present himself as a hacker to keep his anonymous identity , no one can breach the security of a site like twitter unless it is sombedy that has acess to the admin panel