Twitter hackers are So low IQ. - Many Twitter Account Hacked

[bitbunnny]

It's a breaking news in many media today. I'm not surprised, hackers attack happen all the time and social media are also a target, especialy public persons profiles. They used their popularity as a tool to attract people. I'm not surprised they managed to get quite a sum, there are so many naive people not aware of any cyber threats so this is actually an easy job. Humans are always the weakest link.

[adAmgene]

It was about 4 in the afternoon on Wednesday on the East Coast when chaos struck online. Dozens of the biggest names in America — including Joseph R. Biden Jr., Barack Obama, Kanye West, Bill Gates and Elon Musk — posted similar messages on Twitter: Send Bitcoin and the famous people would send back double your money.

[shoreno]

its up to you if you will be affected with it or not but in my case i wont . i heard they only ask for donations and dont scam crypto coins at all so no impact on the price but i feel sorry for someone that got victimed because of this hackings .  hackers aim are not to short the price and why would they do that , its not thier job and not on the plan but its the whales are the one that short the price . hackers only want easy money without thinking if thier plan looks legit or not

[thesmallgod]

What I think at the moment is the vulnerability of Twitter. I am also concerned that day by day we work hard to make Bitcoin a reliable currency and that the bad actors in this case hackers, they have mocked our face.

I have seen all the commotion that the attack caused on Twitter and there will surely be consequences where credibility will be tested. Bitcoin's insecurity and usability may or may not reign. Hopefully not.

We all know that fiat also have pros and cons in term of usage but using cryptocurrency in such scenario as a way of scamming people will bring more strict regulations especially when the probability of getting the peoples money back is not certain. I wish those hackers are caught and pay heavily for their crime.

[rodskee]

It's a breaking news in many media today. I'm not surprised, hackers attack happen all the time and social media are also a target, especially public persons profiles.

Public person accounts are much easier to move greed and unaware people, this
hackers really enjoyed the money.
They've simply take it away from those followers who thinks that the tweets are
for real and person who tweeted will double their money.

They used their popularity as a tool to attract people. I'm not surprised they managed to get quite a sum, there are so many naïve people not aware of any cyber threats so this is actually an easy job. Humans are always the weakest link.

Unawareness and mostly greediness are the reason why people people are being moved
by scammers and hackers.

[Metazen]

You have access to post as people on Twitter. So you're smart enough to get there in the first place. But you're so dumb that you can't figure out something more profitable than a Bitcoin scam? Really!? No way.

[thesmallgod]

its up to you if you will be affected with it or not but in my case i wont . i heard they only ask for donations and dont scam crypto coins at all so no impact on the price but i feel sorry for someone that got victimed because of this hackings .  hackers aim are not to short the price and why would they do that , its not thier job and not on the plan but its the whales are the one that short the price . hackers only want easy money without thinking if thier plan looks legit or not

It generate hoax which can have both positive and negative effect on the price. The methods those hackers used has been a known means of scam which has been reported so many time here on BTT but such being posted on the official top ranks individuals makes it somehow I real. I almost fell for the scam but immediately I saw the script used I had known is a scam

[Bes19]

For sure they have thought that too but for me, i was really wondering how could people believe on such thing. I mean do they really think someone would give out total of 5,000 BTC? That's very suspicious!
I don't know but it might be a possible inside job hmmmm

[kryptqnick]

Sounds easy but you do really think of that hackers havent consider such stuff? Of course they do but to arrange all things up then its quite hassle on my part as being a hacker.

I mean, I'm pretty sure their main goal is to steal as much funds as possible; and it's not like the shorting method is that complicated. But ok let's say that the hackers don't even know what shorting is— there's still a lot more less worse methods than the hackers used.

It's just either one of thes:

1. The hackers aren't fluent in English or writing in general
2. The hackers don't know crap about social engineering and they're more of the "technical" hacker
3. The hackers didn't have the time to think of a clever method

I don't understand why the op is saying something about the low IQ of these hackers. They simultaneously hacked various accounts of very reputable people on Twitter, and it seems that it's still unclear how they managed to do that. As a BBC article on the topic says,

Dmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded cyber-security company CrowdStrike, told Reuters news agency: "This appears to be the worst hack of a major social media platform yet."

Moreover, they managed to get $110k with this scheme (at least that's the amount I've seen in the articles that mention the matter). So even if there were some mistakes in those tweets, the attack was quite successful. It's not millions of dollars, but it's still a significant amount of money and no clue of the authorities who these hackers are (so they're likely to get away with this).

[mk4]

BBC say

"In the short time it was online, the link displayed in the tweets of targeted accounts received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000), according to publicly available blockchain records."

Just goes to show that the intelligence/gullibility of people left holding bitcoin.

While unfortunate, it's really not like bitcoin holders specifically are actually people that intellectually disabled or something. People in general, especially those who aren't internet savvy and those who know nothing about investing and finance, are pretty gullible.

I don't understand why the op is saying something about the low IQ of these hackers. They simultaneously hacked various accounts of very reputable people on Twitter, and it seems that it's still unclear how they managed to do that.

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein

This quote pretty much sums it up. It seems that the hackers are talented technical-wise(hacking and such), but are lacking in the social engineering aspect(scamming).

[sheenshane]

Because of This type of Hacker Industry show Bad. tomorrow all News coverings This and New Investor will affected

Let me know Your opinion

A lesson that must learn, there is no easy way to earn Bitcoin in a doubling process. The hackers tweeted on big companies twitter accounts and ask to send a certain amount of Bitcoin and promised that it will send it back double the amount you have sent. It's weird, isn't it? It's very suspicious even if the real owner ask on that offer I will still wait further clarification.

As per Twitter Support says, they already locked the compromised twitter accounts and have further investigated this case. And I hope this isn't an inside job that most commonly happened, many people asked how this will happen that the security has been breached.

And Twitter support tweeted this,

"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".

[minairia3]

For sure they have thought that too but for me, i was really wondering how could people believe on such thing. I mean do they really think someone would give out total of 5,000 BTC? That's very suspicious!
I don't know but it might be a possible inside job hmmmm

Cant blame them actually. The Twitter accounts are authentic accounts of users involved but it was just been used. Sometime there are lots of giveaways happening on Twitter and it can make you believe that its legit since they are the one who iniatiated this. But in this case, owners of those accounts have no knowledge about it and just been compromise by the hackers. It just become obvious scam when there are lots of known person starting to tweet the same.

[kakonhat]

It's not a normal hack it was big planning. I called, it's a series hack looks like a series attack. Many users got fooled by sending their Bitcoin and most of the users are new. Whatever it was a very very bad experience. Still not found who was behind and that website is taken down.

[Ucy]

People should be careful how they view the hack on Twitter. If such an important social media is well decentralized, the hack won't be happening at this scale. I mean, how can such important personalities have their private stuff and password not controlled by themselves? Hacks like this could be frequent occurrence on centralized system anywhere in the world. It's just that some site owners/nations are more transparent/open about them than others.

Well decentralized systems remain the best way to make things safe and secure. Companies, businesses, organizations etc should be seriously considering moving to "well decentralized" systems. True crypto world and crypto users are seriously moving towards that direction. That is basically what Bitcoin is about. It's also moving towards that direction... it isn't there yet.

It's really unfortunate that Bitcoin and crypto get involved in this. I don't think true Bitcoin/crypto fan would do such thing if they understand the  wrong impression it will create about Bitcoin/crypto. It's something people that are "anti-bitcoin good principles" would do...,. The network is made of good community/communities that believe in the principles guaranteed by any "Just Country" on Earth . Principles like, transparency, decentralization, security, immutablity, censorship resistant, community consensus, good rules, privacy, freedom to control our money/assets, etc. Which Just Country on earth does not guarantee those principles to law abiding people?
Becareful not to ever let go these important rights. Don't hand them over to centralized systems.
If they could convince you that things like Bitcoin or other decentralized tech that run via community consensus (more like true democracy) are full of criminals, they can get you to handover control to dictatorships (centralized powers).



Hopefully, with the way the communities are currently developing, we should be able to prevent bitcoins from going into proven crime/criminal addresses via laid down rules/consensus. It should be possible to gain acess to just the private keys of the criminals' addresses and recover the crime funds(this should be done via consensus). We can't leave the rest of the community vulnerable because of few criminals. We  always have the problem of "few criminals making everybody look bad" situation in every country, right?
So let's keep improving Bitcoin and others, to help them/us achieve the goals of true decentralization.

[kartel616]

when the world has started to implement a lot of blockchain technology, and paypal announced it would support and provide cryptocurrency on their platforms, these hackers came and hacked twitter accounts from famous people, I just thought that this hacker was paid by bankers who were afraid of the development of Crypto would ruin their FIAT business

[audaciousbeing]

Imagine if Elon Musk , Binance, Coinbase, Coindesk, Finex, CZ, Justin and all these other hacked exchange accounts and Influence People were tweet blasting about SEC raids, exchange hacks, funds and Something Bad About Crypto etc.

They could've shorted Crypto Market and will be around $8600/Btc by now. All Alt Coin Will Down.

Because of This type of Hacker Industry show Bad. tomorrow all News coverings This and New Investor will affected

Let me know Your opinion

There are several ways to look at things really and from when the news broke and when I saw it, I felt bad because it further establishes the notion that people have in their mind that bitcoin is about scams and there is nothing to be done about it. However, a further deep down again sends a message to everyone that no system is un-hackable whether by compromise. For me, I would expect the value for Twitter to take a hit because it shows that some systems can be penetrated. if Twitter can be, no system is safe then but at the same time its a wake up call to every service provider or platform globally to ensure that their system and infrastructures are up to date.

[Anonylz]

Sounds easy but you do really think of that hackers havent consider such stuff? Of course they do but to arrange all things up then its quite hassle on my part as being a hacker.

I mean, I'm pretty sure their main goal is to steal as much funds as possible; and it's not like the shorting method is that complicated. But ok let's say that the hackers don't even know what shorting is— there's still a lot more less worse methods than the hackers used.

It's just either one of thes:

1. The hackers aren't fluent in English or writing in general
2. The hackers don't know crap about social engineering and they're more of the "technical" hacker
3. The hackers didn't have the time to think of a clever method

whatever the level of their IQ, i think the crypto community should be glad this hackers never thought of the above listed, that would have been detrimental to the market, knowing the way crypto work, any slight bad news can affect price greatly, they fail on their attempt to steal funds that is much better,  
i think any clever hacker may already have a plan what to do before hacking, pretty sure this guys don't have any plan what to do when they succeed, it was more like a fun thing to them the way i see it.

[reliable]

For sure they have thought that too but for me, i was really wondering how could people believe on such thing. I mean do they really think someone would give out total of 5,000 BTC? That's very suspicious!
I don't know but it might be a possible inside job hmmmm

This is also scary that when some of the powerful persons in the world twitter account can be hacked then for common people it would be so easy for them to do anything they wish too. Also, not sure how many people would have believed them and would have transferred as the coins in anticipation that they will get it back. This was covered in a special show as well in our country and asked people to avoid such things and also this creates a bad name as people in media were telling that bitcoin can be misused and such things are happening so it should be banned etc which is so unfortunate thing to happen.

[pawanjain]

1. Hacking an account is not an easy task and especially the accounts of celebrities are even more tough to hack as it takes more time to get the account hacked.
2. Hacking multiple accounts is even more difficult as it makes you more prone to get detected.
3. Hacking multiple accounts together is like some next level shit. It would take a hacker some extraordinary skills to get that job done.

So much of efforts just to get the price of bitcoin decreased ? If I would be hacker I would rather hack someone's bitcoin wallet rather than putting in so much of efforts to hack the social media accounts of celebrities.

P.S : Not that I would hack someone's bitcoin wallet but it's a typical hacker mindset.

[sayulita]

1. Hacking an account is not an easy task and especially the accounts of celebrities are even more tough to hack as it takes more time to get the account hacked.
2. Hacking multiple accounts is even more difficult as it makes you more prone to get detected.
3. Hacking multiple accounts together is like some next level shit. It would take a hacker some extraordinary skills to get that job done.

So much of efforts just to get the price of bitcoin decreased ? If I would be hacker I would rather hack someone's bitcoin wallet rather than putting in so much of efforts to hack the social media accounts of celebrities.

P.S : Not that I would hack someone's bitcoin wallet but it's a typical hacker mindset.

A single person can never hack the accounts of this much social media celebrities and even the twitter support account was hacked, the hacker might have accessed the twitter database and stolen the passwords or maybe as I said a single person can't do this kind of attack so, maybe a team is involved in all this and they had a pretty generous payday with the address accumulating more than $110k in just a few hours after which twitter banned the tweets from all celebrity accounts due to the fear of more people falling prey to this scam.