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Quote from: zasad@ on August 01, 2020, 05:58:21 AM

If Twitter is hacked by 3 teenagers, then Twitter security system is the crappy.
And the funniest thing is that after hacking Twitter, they transferred the stolen cryptocurrency to their own accounts of the Binance and Coinbase exchanges.
Teenagers are accused of being able to destabilize the political situation in the world, but no one blames Twitter for a shitty security system

Have you read how the hack was executed? It wasn't Twitter system per se but was some of their employees who had access to the Twitter admin panel who was compromised. It's social engineering.

If you followed the story, Twitter pretty much got a lot of criticisms from the hack. Some government officials even stepped in.

Have you watched the movie Mister Robot?
The main character said a very wonderful phrase: "It is not systems that are hacked, but people."
It doesn't matter what method was used for hacking: brute force, social engineering, exploits ... the result is achieved.
This will be another show trial with huge terms for the accused.

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Couldn't find anything but was there any additional info on if they were also linked to the IG post that claimed they were going to send all the money to charity? Not that it changes anything, but I might have a slightly (tiny) improved opinion of the guy(s) if they really did go on and send some of that money out to a charity. Not that cryptoforhealth.com is up to see what is said.

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Quote from: zasad@ on August 01, 2020, 05:58:21 AM

If Twitter is hacked by 3 teenagers, then Twitter security system is the crappy.

That makes them low or yet those 3 kids are really like have a very intelligent mind. I still believe that those kids have been manipulated by someone on the inside of Twitter company to pulled off such heist. I cant believe this incident was planned by themselves.

So the one who give information on these kids were gonna be rich as Justin Sun have a bounty for helping finding the culprit.

Quote from: zasad@ on August 01, 2020, 05:58:21 AM

And the funniest thing is that after hacking Twitter, they transferred the stolen cryptocurrency to their own accounts of the Binance and Coinbase exchanges.

Maybe they thought they are just playing hide and seek and no one can really find them. Busted it is, but I am mixed up frustrated and angry. Imagine their just kids!

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Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

In my opinion you are absolutely right, but unfortunately it is very likely that he will be imprisoned for many years, which will make a real criminal from a misguided kid. Almost all of us make a lot of mistakes at a young age. Then most of us change our ways, and become normal people. It is very unfortunate to be thrown in jail before that. I pity this kid.

That serve a lesson to anyone think to hack any system or social media accounts, but this is totally a waste of talent if they will let this kids rot in jail since maybe the government can use their talents for certain activities. Provably twitter learned their lessons since imagine there social media site has been hack by teenagers only! For sure their techy guys are scratching their heads on how those kids breach on their security/system.

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Quote from: DoubleEdgeEX on August 01, 2020, 02:44:48 AM

Jack Dorsey should hire that kid! Putting him behind bars would be a waste, but on the flipside that didn´t stop them to incarcerate other smart people. I doubt a big media coverage, it would just depict Twitter as not safe as people could expect additional security flaws. I´m curious how they try to get the other kid that resides in the UK.

Lol. NO. Hiring that kid would be even more stupid and that would send a wrong message to all those who have fallen to the hack and scam. There's no doubt that he's good but I don't think he's one of a kind hacker.

Quote from: zasad@ on August 01, 2020, 05:58:21 AM

If Twitter is hacked by 3 teenagers, then Twitter security system is the crappy.
And the funniest thing is that after hacking Twitter, they transferred the stolen cryptocurrency to their own accounts of the Binance and Coinbase exchanges.
Teenagers are accused of being able to destabilize the political situation in the world, but no one blames Twitter for a shitty security system

Have you read how the hack was executed? It wasn't Twitter system per se but was some of their employees who had access to the Twitter admin panel who was compromised. It's social engineering.

If you followed the story, Twitter pretty much got a lot of criticisms from the hack. Some government officials even stepped in.

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Quote from: zasad@ on August 01, 2020, 05:58:21 AM

If Twitter is hacked by 3 teenagers, then Twitter security system is the crappy.
And the funniest thing is that after hacking Twitter, they transferred the stolen cryptocurrency to their own accounts of the Binance and Coinbase exchanges.
Teenagers are accused of being able to destabilize the political situation in the world, but no one blames Twitter for a shitty security system

Definitely not the smartest move of their careers. Rather a career ending move Wink

Smart enough to hack tweeter, not smart enough to know which exchanges are the bigest rats in the industry. At least they had no Gemini accounts.

According to federal agents, Sheppard was found out partly because he used a personal driver’s license to verify himself with the Binance and Coinbase cryptocurrency exchanges, and his accounts were found to have sent and received some of the scammed bitcoin. Fazeli also used a driver’s license to verify with Coinbase,

These guys did full KYC there using their own documents which is already a strike even if you're a legit trader. If you want the IRS to have you on the list do KYC on coinbase. If you do it on CZ's platform who knows where it will end up. Probably sold to some chinese hackers.
Sending coins to coinbase - strike 2.
Sending stolen coins to coinbase - strike 3.

And you're out of the social life. Only butt sex for another 20 years and no money waiting for you when you get out.

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If Twitter is hacked by 3 teenagers, then Twitter security system is the crappy.
And the funniest thing is that after hacking Twitter, they transferred the stolen cryptocurrency to their own accounts of the Binance and Coinbase exchanges.
Teenagers are accused of being able to destabilize the political situation in the world, but no one blames Twitter for a shitty security system

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Quote from: MainIbem on July 31, 2020, 02:41:33 PM

Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

In my opinion you are absolutely right, but unfortunately it is very likely that he will be imprisoned for many years, which will make a real criminal from a misguided kid. Almost all of us make a lot of mistakes at a young age. Then most of us change our ways, and become normal people. It is very unfortunate to be thrown in jail before that. I pity this kid.

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Rather than being an expert or genius in that field at a young age, I'm more concerned about the fact that at that young age, he decided to hack and scam other people for money, knowing the consequences. He's still a minor and living by himself, I guess the lack of guidance from his parents is also a factor why he was able to do it.

But at least, the hackers got caught. They are smart enough to hack big accounts, so they probably know the consequences of their actions. Even if he's still a minor, he should be responsible for it. A good job for the part of the authorities for finding them without taking a long time.

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This could be true but more childish than these people is the security of twitter. And with the history of Kevin Mitnick, probably he social engineered someone inside twitter to give him away sensitive information about users. And twitter too confirmed that they stored users password in plain text on log files. Glad it was some individuals gaining access to social profile, if organized hacking groups had a similar access, they could have created much more havoc or just could have used them to siphon internal data.

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Quote from: Ryker1 on July 31, 2020, 05:22:11 PM

Well, I can't imagine at that age that kid was expert on hacking, --that's an absolutely ^{[extra ordernary]} kid that we don't know why he becomes that famous hacker. That's just only a kid, how much more if that kid becomes mature I don't know how many becomes a victim of him. Indeed, that kid wasn't alone in this scam operation. Perhaps they are a group and maybe they target those big-time profiles at once in a time.

I have been researched what that kid his face looks like but I did not find it.

Have you ever heard of Kevin Mitnick?

At age 12, Mitnick used social engineering and dumpster diving[15] to bypass the punch card system used in the Los Angeles bus system. After he convinced a bus driver to tell him where he could buy his own ticket punch for "a school project", he was able to ride any bus in the greater LA area using unused transfer slips he found in a dumpster next to the bus company garage. Social engineering later became his primary method of obtaining information, including usernames and passwords and modem phone numbers.[16]

Mitnick first gained unauthorized access to a computer network in 1979, at 16, when a friend gave him the phone number for the Ark, the computer system that Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) used for developing its RSTS/E operating system software.[17] He broke into DEC's computer network and copied the company's software, a crime for which he was charged and convicted in 1988. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Near the end of his supervised release, Mitnick hacked into Pacific Bell voice mail computers. After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Mitnick fled, becoming a fugitive for two and a half years.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Mitnick gained unauthorized access to dozens of computer networks while he was a fugitive. He used cloned cellular phones to hide his location and, among other things, copied valuable proprietary software from some of the country's largest cellular telephone and computer companies. Mitnick also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into and read private e-mails.

Some kids are just smart. The only problem is they're going to make an example out of him to scare off possible followers and copycats.

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I am sure he is not working alone because that will need more hackers to hack twitter. But if he has high skills in programming, I think he can work alone because he can be able to break the security, and he can enter to the database. But I am amazed that finally twitter hacker arrested, and that hacker is a young boy who can hack twitter account. But if he doesn't work alone, I am not surprised to see that they can break the security with many people who have skills in language programming.

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Seriously? Those kids are really that incredible to the extent that they have done such big crime that involves too many cases because of what they have done on hacking well-known personalities accounts and done money laundering. But I still doubt that they are only the ones who have do it all by themselves. Maybe they were just the frontal to hide the biggest names behind the Twitter hack. But if they really did that all alone, they are surprisingly unbelievable to have such high knowledge about hacking because they have carried out such crime that you can only imagine to be done by nerds that have lots of experiences in the field of hacking.

They are still at minor ages but they have already done such big crime. But those were still allegations and under deep investigation so probably as days will pass by, maybe the real ones will be found. I just cannot believe that they can do it if I would be basing on their ages but if they really did it, then their adulthood will be messed up for they will sure to get sentenced behind the bars.

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This kids have great knowledge to conduct this level of hacking. Also being a platform as Twitter, we would think that they are advancing towards security, but there is always someone that is more clever.
That said, Money is the root of this problem. If they are the ones who did it, they will repent the action, because they hacked big accounts and so, they will probably lose their teen years in jail. They could have used this knowledge for ethical hacking, instead of this!

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Quote from: MainIbem on July 31, 2020, 02:41:33 PM

Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

At that age, it is really a great skill.

But still, he should not be wasting that skill and knowledge with identity theft, hacking and multiple frauds. He can do better and now he will be facing I think more or less than a decade in jail. That is years and years of wasted time he can use to develop his skill and use it for good.

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Quote from: desticy on July 31, 2020, 02:20:48 PM

I hope he will make a deal and help the United States win the war against China.
Otherwise, America will have problems as a super villain. Cheesy

and what prevented the hacker from accepting money from the Chinese? this is the problem of dealing with hackers who invade other people's things for money, you can never trust and compromise with them

Quote from: dothebeats on July 31, 2020, 02:27:25 PM

I wonder whether Justin Sun would really be good on his words, and to whom would he give the bounty anyways? Huh

he is very intelligent and knew that in this case many people would be involved and He took advantage to do marketing

Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence. This is identity theft of an extremely serious degree, and could even be considered an act of terrorism considering he exfilitrated the personal data of presidents, ex presidents and members of congress.

There is a 100% chance that they are going to make an example of this kid, I'm expecting 5-10 years in prison at the very least.

I don't know the laws of the USA but I think he can get more than 13 years in prison

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Jack Dorsey should hire that kid! Putting him behind bars would be a waste, but on the flipside that didn´t stop them to incarcerate other smart people. I doubt a big media coverage, it would just depict Twitter as not safe as people could expect additional security flaws. I´m curious how they try to get the other kid that resides in the UK.

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I never thought that it's been done by a teenager. Who have thought of that? I guess no one. I thought that this was made by a group of hackers that have been doing this for a long time.

Quote from: Blank-Head on July 31, 2020, 09:56:16 PM

If the master mind boy of Twitter hacking got arrested then I think the funds what had been stolen can recover easily.
Is this will happen actually? What you think? It should be recovered because who have funds got arrested if suspect is true.

It's possible to retrieve the funds and can be recovered if the boy returns it at his own will or mandated, I don't know the actual procedure on this matter. But if he just shut his mouth and talks not about it, they can't do anything with it. Looking positively, if the funds have been recovered, we will never know if the person assigned will be honest in returning those to the victims. Although, I'm wishing all the best that the funds will be returned gradually to all of those affected people.

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Quote from: ololajulo on July 31, 2020, 02:51:47 PM

I just wonder why this news is hiding here not in the public, I need more verification for such an hack that shook one of the top social media and most influential person in the world, while the news of the apprehension is on few papers. I believe such intelligent kid does not get as much pay as those protecting twitter, as much as the boy could be jailed twitter need to found out other loopholes in their project, more also the scam address should be refunded.

The news will start somewhere and start to disseminate to every nook and cranny. This is a piece of fresh news and you don't expect it to have gotten all over everywhere within a short period of time. Just give a few days and you will be surprised to read more about the story. I came across it as headline stories on twitter this morning and it will just be a matter of time before it keeps trending because that twitter hacks really shocked the globe and everyone including will like to know how the boy got to hack those influential people twitter page

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Quote from: joinfree on July 31, 2020, 05:34:47 PM

oh please, there are equally better ethical hackers out there so let's not make it seem like this guy is a genius. What they did was wrong and must be punished severely for it. This should go a long way to server to detter other illegal hackers from hatching such plan and rather use their talent for something good.

I don't think these hackers are particularly smart, people can make themselves look like expert hackers by using some graphical program, but it doesn't change the fact that they know very little about the science of hacking.

MalwareTech is an example of a guy who actually knew his way around things.

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