Twitter Hackers Arrested! [Updated] - page 2.

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Lol Justin Sun promised to give $1 million to anyone that’s going to find the Twitter hackers, so now that the people behind has been caught by the FBI, IRS and other agencies have got the boy, is he going to give the money to them? Huh

Because someone mentioned this the last time, that what if the Twitter hackers are caught by the FBI? So I guess he’s going to give an excuse with that and won’t be giving any money to anyone lol.

Quote from: BuNga_cute on August 03, 2020, 06:08:30 AM

To be honest, I was surprised to find out that Twitter hackers turned out to only 3 teenagers. This is totally unexpected,
I imagine the culprit is some professional hackers.

Yea, sure I was also surprised when I saw the first news that a seventeen years old kid was arrested because of the Twitter hacks. I was once discussing the Twitter hack with my friend when it happened earlier, and he said that the hackers must be some professional hackers that has been hacking for years and has some super computers lol. And now look at what it turned out to be.... Kids!

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Quote from: pawanjain on August 04, 2020, 10:17:14 AM

I have heard quite a few times that in such cases where big companies get hacked they find the hacker and when he is about to go to jail the company hires them as their cybersecurity employee. What do you guys think ? Will these guys get a job at Twitter too ? Grin

I'm also thinking of this. If Twitter won't hire them and no one will bail them, there's a chance that they will work on Pentagon or any US department or might be the secret service. That's also based from those news that I have heard in the past.

If that's just a conspiracy, well it made me believed a lot all of my life since when I was a teenager. But if those things were for real, they will have a chance to correct what they've done.

Otherwise, they have to pay the damages that they have brought.

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I have heard quite a few times that in such cases where big companies get hacked they find the hacker and when he is about to go to jail the company hires them as their cybersecurity employee. What do you guys think ? Will these guys get a job at Twitter too ? Grin

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Quote from: LogitechMouse on August 03, 2020, 06:21:40 PM

Quote from: Qcrypto on August 03, 2020, 09:32:49 AM

Rather than sentencing him to jail, they will probably "hire" him in the FBI as a counter-hacking agent

I know only one person who committed crime (more serious than this crime) and currently working and roaming freely. He is Kevin Mitnick (just google search it Cheesy

).

I know that this teenager committed a crime but I know that he can be helpful with the other high ranked organizations like CIA and FBI with his hacking skills. The only mistake that he did is that he used his skills in a negative way instead of being a white hat hacker.

Kevin committed crime in the year when "the Internet was young", it had weak security and people were naïve. Hacking was not so popular. What was one of his first crimes? He copied a software. What were his crimes ? Damaging security, computers. Security organization simply needed his knowledge and that is why he is "roaming freely".

What this Twitter hacker did ? Purposefully stole money. He knew what he was doing from very first click. He knew the consequences he might get and still he did it.

CIA and FBI a full of specialists like this twitter hacker. With flawless reputation. Why would they need a criminal in their team? He would be a "sleeping wolf among sheep" or a "bomb with a timer".

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Damn.
17 years old?!
I wonder how many hours does the kid spend in front of his computer to be able to think of "oh I wanna hack Bill Gates' twitter".

Only good news to this is that the culprit has been found, but finding out that teenagers would be able to do this big regardless of the country they reside at makes me think twice if I would even consider staying out of social media these days for my privacy's sake.

The kid was alone. Probably he get bumped on people who are experts on computer's securities, seen potential on the kid, thought him about more about this crimes, and use him to being the main suspect and hide the truth that there's also other people working with the kid.
Or maybe he has enough talents and intelligence to be able to do such thing.

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Identity theft is serious crime and should be really punished by the law accordingly. I think this is one of the negative impacts of technology, people are having intentions to take advantage of other people with the use of things in this modern world. I believe that there are powerful individuals behind this crime, people who are much authoritative over these minors.

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still not sure the kid is working alone, but what is the real motive that he did that really makes ugly bitcoin in everyone's eyes, actually I often see many youtube channels also hacked and once again they do live broadcasts to commit fraud, it's really a serious crime, but we realize also he still looks young there is still a lot he must learn in his life, so I think with that made him learn from this bad experience, I just saw this news here but did not find the hacker's face Huh

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Quote from: pooya87 on August 04, 2020, 01:11:58 AM

Quote from: Sutters Mill on August 03, 2020, 05:52:43 AM

Reminds me of the Ross Ulbricht situation where he was a smart guy but got by one simple screw up that was tied to him personally.

this was not a simple screw up though! they were all in the same circles on same websites with their real IP addresses (no Tor or anything) and were also signed up on centralized custodial wallets like Coinbase with again the same IP address and their wallets were also linked to the same address they used to scam!

what they did was more like going to rob a bank and then taking your drivers license out to show it to the camera with your face and the bag of money in your other hand Cheesy

#pooya87 I want to agree with you on this one... It seems more like amateur hour script kiddies hack to me. Someone might even have used them as a puppet, by showing them how to do this, knowing that it would lead to their arrest.

How do you make that many mistakes and think you can get away with that? They used no mixer services, leading to a Blockchain breadcrumb trail back to them on a centralized exchange? (They did not even have to make use of Chainanalysis to compile that information) Roll Eyes

I hope they recovered enough of the money for restitution to the victims of this scam, but unfortunately no amount of money will restore the damage that was done to the reputation of Twitter and Bitcoin. Angry

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Quote from: Sutters Mill on August 03, 2020, 05:52:43 AM

Reminds me of the Ross Ulbricht situation where he was a smart guy but got by one simple screw up that was tied to him personally.

this was not a simple screw up though! they were all in the same circles on same websites with their real IP addresses (no Tor or anything) and were also signed up on centralized custodial wallets like Coinbase with again the same IP address and their wallets were also linked to the same address they used to scam!

what they did was more like going to rob a bank and then taking your drivers license out to show it to the camera with your face and the bag of money in your other hand Cheesy

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I dont believe that this hackers are clever enough or just used phishing links to steal staff account and managed to collect email and password of those twitter profiles, did they actually penetrate the security system of twitter? or just a fault of a staff? If they are good enough in hacking then try to secure first not to locate their identity before doing any stupid acts.

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Quote from: Qcrypto on August 03, 2020, 09:32:49 AM

Rather than sentencing him to jail, they will probably "hire" him in the FBI as a counter-hacking agent

I know only one person who committed crime (more serious than this crime) and currently working and roaming freely. He is Kevin Mitnick (just google search it Cheesy

).

I know that this teenager committed a crime but I know that he can be helpful with the other high ranked organizations like CIA and FBI with his hacking skills. The only mistake that he did is that he used his skills in a negative way instead of being a white hat hacker.

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Graham Ivan Clark, 17, of Tampa. Unfortunately he has a criminal mind. With the Twitter attack there are already 30 criminal charges against him. The defense attorney argues the following in addition to stating that his client has more than $ 3 million worth of Bitcoin.

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"I can think of no greater indication of legitimacy than law enforcement giving the money back," said Weisbrod. I asked the judge to set bail at $ 20,000.

The judge decided to set bail at $ 25,000 per 29 counts. For the 30th charge, the judge ordered that if Clark posts bail he must wear an electronic monitor and be confined to his home, except for visits to the doctor or his attorney. The judge barred him from accessing the internet on any device and ordered the 17-year-old to surrender his passport if he has one. "

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2020/08/01/twitter-teen-makes-first-court-appearance-in-tampa/%3foutputType=amp

The Twitter employees who were bribed. What about them? and his accomplices. Possibly we will know more at the trial.

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I had thought a well known hacker group would be responsible. I'm sure nobody would've expected a bunch of teenagers to get passed twitter's security walls. While the incident wasn't anything spectacular or new (social engineering ish), it goes to show how easy it was to get access to some high level stuffs at twitter with little efforts. Funny thing is the hack happened months earlier, it only came to light and twitter didn't know about it. when it was used for making scammy tweets.

Makes me wonder how secured our data and accounts on big platforms like twitter are.

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Quote from: Welsh on August 03, 2020, 05:07:02 PM

AFAIK, the way that he gained access to these accounts wasn't anything particularly impressive. I haven't been keeping up to date with it, and I've only skimmed over it, but it seemed like it was either a social engineering a representative of Twitter which allowed them to gain access to the internal tools, or they simply compromised one of the staff of Twitter. This might have been a simple way of gaining access, and there's no reason to believe that this was a particularly impressive feat.

According to the official Twitter support, the attackers have targeted an employee via a "phone spear phishing" attack.
How such an attack could be performed is described here, for example:
- A Twitter employee could have received a message on his phone to call a certain number
- The employee is then forwarded to a fake helpdesk employee
- The fake helpdesk employee uses social engineering techniques to trick the Twitter employee into handing over his access data

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Quote from: Qcrypto on August 03, 2020, 09:32:49 AM

Rather than sentencing him to jail, they will probably "hire" him in the FBI as a counter-hacking agent

AFAIK, the way that he gained access to these accounts wasn't anything particularly impressive. I haven't been keeping up to date with it, and I've only skimmed over it, but it seemed like it was either a social engineering a representative of Twitter which allowed them to gain access to the internal tools, or they simply compromised one of the staff of Twitter. This might have been a simple way of gaining access, and there's no reason to believe that this was a particularly impressive feat. I know that the prosecutor suggesting that this teenager wasn't the typical teenager, but without specifics its hard to draw a conclusion to what it meant by that statement, and in what context.

Although, I think this teenager will be made an example of. Its very rare for so many high profile accounts to be hacked, and used as a outright scam in a small amount of time. Also, what's the verdict on the stolen money? How are they going to be handling that situation?

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It was nearly unbelievable to know that the people behind the big hack that happened to Twitter that hacked the accounts of the well-known personalities are just teenagers. It is so doubtful to think how those teenagers be capable to setting up such a big crime at their very young age. How did they make that thing happen or how did they acquire such amazing talent that seems to be wasted because they have used it for bad doings. I still cannot believe that they are the ones responsible for that crime. If they really are, I think they have other people together working with them because it is really quite impossible to think how a group of teenagers be able to hack a big and well-known social media platform and to think even hacked big personalities account and stole a big bunch of money.

I think those teenagers are just the dummy to hide the big masterminds behind that crime. But if they really did it on their own, that was a very surprising and amazing part to believe how they have done such. It is just that they have wasted their talent and knowledge which can be a good asset if they have chosen to use it for good.

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Quote from: Oasisman on July 31, 2020, 04:23:40 PM

For sure this kid isn't alone. The other two were just accessories, obviously hackers won't get caught being too stupid for sending scammed Btc in a centralized exchange lol.
Nevertheless, the US law enforcement did a really good job for busting a blockbuster account breaching in Twitter.
I'm just wondering, the article didn't mentioned about confiscating the scammed Btc. Are the victims will receive back their Btc if they can provide a valid claim through the blockchain record?

I have the same thoughts as you. these three teenagers might still have another organized group to launch this attack on Twitter and manage all of their strategies. Teen 17 only became a mascot and two of them became accessories. This case must be explored in more depth to find out all their networks so as not to leave the other suspects or even the people who are really behind all this hacking. These teenage geniuses did the wrong thing by doing hacks that hurt everyone.

For BTC obtained from scammed, it will probably be returned to the owner according to the record of the transaction carried out in blockchain, perhaps waiting for all the trials to finish, because this BTC is still a strong evidence to ensnare them into prison.

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Quote from: Erumo on August 03, 2020, 09:37:04 AM

Quote from: Qcrypto on August 03, 2020, 09:32:49 AM

Rather than sentencing him to jail, they will probably "hire" him in the FBI as a counter-hacking agent

The guy has already committed a crime. Do you think it will be wise to give all the resources FBI have? Just imagine what he can do and hide his trails. Giving him a job in FBI means encouraging him. He wont learn a lesson from it.

No doubt the kid has a talent, but he used it in a wrong direction.

Yea, its kind of a criminal mentality they satisfies them self by doing things against the law, this kind of job thrills them. The total psychological mind of such a person should explore before assigning any job like FBI, else he is capable of doing something horribaly extraordinary.

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Quote from: Qcrypto on August 03, 2020, 09:32:49 AM

Rather than sentencing him to jail, they will probably "hire" him in the FBI as a counter-hacking agent

The guy has already committed a crime. Do you think it will be wise to give all the resources FBI have? Just imagine what he can do and hide his trails. Giving him a job in FBI means encouraging him. He wont learn a lesson from it.

No doubt the kid has a talent, but he used it in a wrong direction.

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Rather than sentencing him to jail, they will probably "hire" him in the FBI as a counter-hacking agent

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