Topic: Elon Musk Twitter hacked - page 2. (Read 631 times)

If I am not wrong, the criminals managed to steal only a small amount of money (~$100,000). This looks minuscule, when compared to the amount which is lost annually to exchange hacks. For example, there were 12 major exchange hacks in 2019 (and many minor ones), which resulted in losses in excess of $300 million. You can't even compare it with other crypto scams such as Onecoin and PlusToken, when billions of USD were stolen.

They tried to do massive damage with these accounts but failed to do so because people are more aware nowadays so only a minor amount of people did actually sent their bitcoins to that wallet hoping they would be getting double money in return, but actually we all knew that it was a scam right from the start.

As the attack was a social engineering attack so we can see this type of attack again in the future, employees are people only who can easily be fooled by social engineering attacks and falls in the trap of hacker, no matter how much secure your firewall is, if someone inside it opens a door to attacker then he can do a lot of damage once he is inside the system. Although most employees also get this type of training in tech firms to recognise a social engineering attack and also to tackle it.

And twitter already recognizes their mistake and made a post about it. The vector of the attack was some twitter employers, they got hacked by social engineering and after that all the accounts was vulnerable.

Will be hard to see an attack like this again. For sure they will do something about the security to avoid it.

It's really shocking what happened. Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian West, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffett, Apple, Uber and other 120 famous accounts with millions of followers. I haven't checked how much money hackers got, but I imagine it's huge money. We often talking about how important to protect your accounts - use proper password, 2FA, don't fall into phishing scams. But c'mon, I'm sure that Gates or Musk knew how to protect their events. But even they weren't able to defend from hackers...

Not only Elon Musk i knew a dozens of big influencers accounts was hacked even also a ride sharing account. Posted similar BTC addresses from every account. Tweet deleted and for the security issues those accounts are temporary disabled. It was great excited offers for 30 min oh no a lot of victims.       

I just thank God the scam tweets didn't spend longer time, it'd be worse. Almost everyone would fall victim. Those accounts are all verified from rich and famous Bitcoin enthusiast, it sounds so real and this days men run after money doubling like goats runs after each other for mating.

Well Elon musk is now just one of the famous persons in crypto today.Actually its not surprising and I guess it was just little of time.Now I fell  that Twitter has some serious security problem and this was not the first time incedent was happen. They will have to explain a lot of things.But it's matter of regret that many people lost money because of this. That's why we always needs to careful if we send money anywhere.

I found the quote in the washingtonpost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/15/musk-gates-twitter-hack/

Impressive for everyone and alarming what that security expert says. After seeing this we are vulnerable, we need more secure applications on the internet.

Sure mate, the damage has been done and the hackers has already moved the coins to mixers for cashout. This will portray bitcoin in a bad image in time to come even though not now. Those flowers of the affected Twitter handlers, would now see Bitcoin as a criminal digital currency and will be afraid to venture into it. Twitter should be blame for this, because they were not able to secure users data properly.

I can really sense something different from what many have been saying regard to this Twitter hack. Believe me or not, this has to do with the government involvement and not just an individual or cooperate hacking. Maybe the government wanted to know some secrets about some Twitter handlers or their intentions to bring bad name to cryptocurrency and Bitcoin most importantly. Though, Justin Sun had already place a $1m bounty on those hackers information which is a good development in such time like this.

Unknown attackers hacked Twitter accounts of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and many others. On the pages of hacked celebrity accounts, were posted messages about the fake distribution of 5000 BTC from an unknown site Cryptoforhealth.

It is already known that attackers who managed to gain access to the accounts of many celebrities on Twitter transferred the received funds to a separate address.

You can read more in "Twitter hackers used BitPay and Coinbase to transfer funds".

Nowadays scammers are increasingly brave to hack Twitter accounts of famous people, before that popular exchanges accounts are hacked too.
Famous people have many followers, so scammers use it to commit fraud. Such as offering opportunities to get money instantly and also various
kinds of give away it does not make sense. So be careful when looking at accounts of famous people offering something that does not make sense.
It's better not to be easy to believe, next don't click on website addresses that we don't know about. Most likely it's a phishing attack.

I think Hacker has hacked Twitter system because I have seen the message in Twitter support page and Some big twitter page such as Apple,Elon mask,Bill gates,Binance etc.Because of that Bitcoin has received a lot of negative promotion.Somewhere I have heard that From Alon mask and Bill gates account hacker has received 59000$ in just a couple of hours.People get greedy very fast.They don't try to understand they just want profit.Thats why many people send their hard working money Btc  to double it very fast.Please avoid from such scam.Please research before trying to do this thing.

Btw many exchange account has also hacked such as Binance ,Gemini,Kucoin,Coinbase erc.

It is not just Elon musk , it's also Joe Biden and other famous high profile celebrities. But I do think people should have already recognized this , this is practically impossible to actually begin with , if they keep doubling up the money of the people like this , they are very successful businessman and they did not reach there by doing this.

The problem is not with the Bitcoins or cryptocurrencies ! Problem is with Twitter ! The sole reason this scam was successful in the first place is the fault of Twitter .

Plus the scammers were able to accumulate actually a lot of money through this but one should understand that If something is so good to be true it's truly a scam! The only reason why these scams propel and accumulate anything is because of *greed* , we should learn few things here:

1. Don't be greedy and work hard to earn your own money
2. Educate yourself about scams like these
3. If something is so good to be true it's definitely fishy
4. Don't trust anything even if it's from the Twitter of some known celebrity ! Send money to someone you don't know personally only after thorough research.
5. Don't place your bets on the social media
6. Since hackers are able to pull things like this , This really shows us how we need to actually learn about ethical hacking early on so that we can tackle it safely , employee people who are familiar with this stuff , degree doesn't matter !

I think Twitter got hacked. Theres so many more people that posted this. Apple, Bezos, Elon, Biden, Coinbase... the list goes on. The scary thing is, this could have been used to do massive damage.

If these people are going to give, they will do it on charities not just giving crypto on strangers in the internet, and followers should know this my god. I can't believe that there are still people who believes on this crap, doubler? an old piece of cake left on the table. Didn't they think that those accounts were hacked? I never imagine Joe Biden, although he is a pro-bitcoiner, tweeting a stuff like that, I mean we can easily detect if those were legit. In the first place, it was on twitter, so what's new about it?

I also think that they did not write Tweets from random accounts but were choosing the verified accounts of famous people who are pro-Bitcoin, potentially pro-Bitcoin or neutral. I haven't seen a single example of such tweets by known crypto haters, and I don't think it's a coincidence because they hacked quite a big amount of accounts.
Unfortunately, I've seen info about around $110k these scammers received from people. And while the scheme is indeed typical and obvious to many, there hasn't been such a serious attack on Twitter accounts before, and I suppose some thought that info from a verified account cannot be false...

This is a trending topic as of this day, there are many Twitter accounts which are now hacked, those are big people or popular person, hackers are so smart because they hacked so many accounts of a popular person. They may get money from hacking those accounts, they may ask some money for return, I think there are already many people who get scammed by the post of those popular twitter accounts but as of this day there, wouldn't be the person who will fall for that scam because it is now very trending. The good thing is that this case spreads immediately.

Not just Elon Musk, all of those major investors and US figures are also been hacked.

Hackers that made this act is kinda brilliant, they attacked those employees who have access to internal data and security. That's why they make the scam possible in the internet world.
I hope no one got baited on this obvious scam made by the hackers. Anyways, social media accounts are really prone to be hacked by using some tools to implement the hacking so it's not new anymore.

But at least they don't gather big amounts from doing this twitter hacking because the twitter management acted fast and make precautionary measures like holding the involved accounts to prevent further damage.

Imagine those candidate for presidency and also former president like Barrack Obama?

This will serve a lesson to all social media fanatic that Please extend your research everytime there is something like this because mostly there are no solicitation happens from those people.