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Quote from: X-ray on September 12, 2023, 12:48:05 AM

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Vitalik has been clarifying what was happening with his account last week. His account got hacked due to the sim swap. I think that it has nothing to do with twitter's security but i do agree if twitter's security was weak.
There have been many similar cases happened since a few years ago. Glad vitalik has gotten back his account again.

I thought it would be something like this and it wouldn't be his fault. Account hacked via third party.

First i wondered why someone like vitalik would not use it, but reading about it, it now seems that if your phone number is linked to account, 2FA isn't going help you. People can just social engineer their way to your account via gullible phone network staff.

While looking at this closely, i also noticed that google 2fa is not an option anymore for non-subscibers, which is just mad. There are many influencers that are not paying subsctiption, because of principle

And platform formerly known as twitter thought, that it might be ok for their followers to get scammed, if they don't pay for subscription.
Now it turns out it doesn't even matter if you pay subscription, if hacker uses social engineering to telecommunications company.

Twitter is working like a toilet in a public train.

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Quote from: o48o on September 10, 2023, 03:52:06 PM

Quote from: JeromeTash on September 10, 2023, 02:49:20 PM

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The hacked account is his x.com account, and people lost thousands of dollars because they decided to blindly follow a tweet supposedly made by a hacker about some NFTs. Now, how is someone supposed to prove that their account was hacked on not?

I have to admit that i might have fallen into that too. Vitalik might be the last person i would have foreseen getting hacked so i totally understand why people risked their wallets on it. Now the question is HOW did he get hacked?

And people saying that he is making this hack up for money? Are you serious? Same guy who doesn't value money in same ways most people do. Same guy that donated more than $1.2 billion to India Covid Relief Fund just while ago and is known to donate money all the time? That guy would drain wallets? That's insane.

He doesn't have same kind of relationship to money as most people do.

Totally agree and it doesnt really make any sense if this was really just some sort of show on pretending for his twitter/x account had been hacked and just snipped
Hack of Vitalik Buterin's X Account Leads to $691K Stolen
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/11/691k-stolen-as-hackers-take-over-vitalik-buterins-x-account/

So it didnt even hit up a million and did make out some search and answering on how this thing is possible?
Because of some sim-swap attack
Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack
https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-reveals-x-account-hack-was-caused-by-sim-swap-attack

So it was a real hack and not really just trying out to scam people intendly. The issue here is that people do easily follow but well knowing about on how known or popular
Vitalik is, then i couldnt really blame them though but it is really actually that odd in the first place.

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Quote from: MainIbem on September 10, 2023, 10:21:17 AM

Was it his forum account that got hacked or social media accounts, if social media account how do he get to sign a message for account hack? I was only thing signing a message could be possible here and if such person couldn't prove it then we can say such account is hacked. Sometime people can be too funny he might even signed the message if actually he wanna claimed to be backed.

Signing a message can prove if the address is still controlled by Vitalik Buterin, this isn't about which social media he get hacked.

Do you believe Vitalik Buterin is really kind for giving you free NFT that worth for $1,000? if you say no, case closed. But if you say yes, then you need to ask Vitalik Buterin to sign a message where he control a lot premined ETH in his address. The thing is some people are still believe about this stupid thing.

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Looks like they gathered that much just some little time for controlling that account, imagine how much they could get when they have full control of the account in a single day. Sim Swap is scary, People would consider not trusting phone number authentication in that case and they should learn from this if they don't want to fall into the same trap again. How could this happen when we know he is one of the people we think to get hacked? We learn from this as well, Just because you are one of the owners of the top altcoins, it doesn't mean you are not gonna get hacked, Everyone is vulnerable except those who protect themselves and constantly update their security to avoid such problems in the future.

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That account has been restored after 20 minutes, and in the meantime, the damage has already been done. The Simswap attack is really alarming and makes me more skeptical about clicking any link, no matter who posted it. I am going to remove my phone number from my Twitter account and use Google Auth for now. Precaution is good when bad things are happening around you.

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Quote from: Apocollapse on September 10, 2023, 01:07:58 AM

Plot twist Vitalik Buterin X account wasn't get hacked, but he act like he was get hacked because there's already a victim fall into his scam.

There's nothing can be trusted here, no proof if Vitalik Buterin was get hacked and we can't verify it. The best way if someone offer anything, you need to ask him to sign a message, so you can know if it's really him or not.

Yeah, apparently Vitalik the genius behind the second largest blockchain in the crypto space will stoop so low to scam people of a few thousand dollars in your opinion.
Vitalik becomes so bored and broke he needs to create a phishing site for victims to fall into the trap of wallet drain, this does not sound like what the likes of Vitalik can do.
But what actually is kinda weird is how such a person's account got hacked! it just goes to show no one is safe from hackers, irrespective of how careful or secure you may claim to be.

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Quote from: adaseb on September 10, 2023, 11:18:29 PM

Twitter has the worst security. I remember a year ago or two, many high profile twitter accounts (except Trumps) were hacked and promoted some crypto scam.

They really need to up their security because crypto is one thing but imagine is someone took over the President of the USA twitter account started to tweet something dangerous and put people in grave danger.

Vitalik has been clarifying what was happening with his account last week. His account got hacked due to the sim swap. I think that it has nothing to do with twitter's security but i do agree if twitter's security was weak.
There have been many similar cases happened since a few years ago. Glad vitalik has gotten back his account again.

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Twitter has the worst security. I remember a year ago or two, many high profile twitter accounts (except Trumps) were hacked and promoted some crypto scam.

They really need to up their security because crypto is one thing but imagine is someone took over the President of the USA twitter account started to tweet something dangerous and put people in grave danger.

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Quote from: Apocollapse on September 10, 2023, 01:07:58 AM

Plot twist Vitalik Buterin X account wasn't get hacked, but he act like he was get hacked because there's already a victim fall into his scam.

There's nothing can be trusted here, no proof if Vitalik Buterin was get hacked and we can't verify it. The best way if someone offer anything, you need to ask him to sign a message, so you can know if it's really him or not.

Is that confirmed? What is the real story here? He shared a phishing link by mistake? Certainly we cannot accuse Vitalik of sharing a phishing link himself to scam his followers or can we accuse him of working with a hacker and let the hacker borrow his account. It would be very head shaking if he did.

In any case, everyone should be very skeptical on offers of free NFTs from influencers even if they are real. Much of them is a waste of gas fees.

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Quote from: JeromeTash on September 10, 2023, 02:49:20 PM

Quote from: MainIbem on September 10, 2023, 10:21:17 AM

Was it his forum account that got hacked or social media accounts, if social media account how do he get to sign a message for account hack? I was only thing signing a message could be possible here and if such person couldn't prove it then we can say such account is hacked. Sometime people can be too funny he might even signed the message if actually he wanna claimed to be backed.

Looks like you have not been following.

The hacked account is his x.com account, and people lost thousands of dollars because they decided to blindly follow a tweet supposedly made by a hacker about some NFTs. Now, how is someone supposed to prove that their account was hacked on not?

There is no way to verify whether the account has actually been hacked or not. Even Twitter itself cannot prove that this happened if no suspicious change occurred in the account settings. Of course, this raises the hypothesis that Vitalik, the owner of the account, is claiming this to justify the hack, which it would be assumed that he himself was the one who carried it out. The stolen amount is not that large, and therefore I doubt that Vitalik is claiming that his account has been hacked, and at the same time I find it strange that a developer of his size is unable to properly secure his accounts.

This raises a deeper problem regarding trusting the accounts of these “influencers” as if we trust them themselves. People who lost their savings did not bother to check before connecting their wallets to the suspicious site.

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Quote from: asawale on September 09, 2023, 11:44:56 PM

VITALIK "X" account (formerly twitter) was hacked resulting into victims losing up to $700K worths of assets to the scammer (hacker).

The account already restored to the vitalik and he had removed the phishing link that posted on his twitter last day. The thing that makes me curious is how dumb people is? They were only clicking the link blindly like they have no brain to think.
I don't even know how many stupid people who trapped in that phishing link but they must be dumbest people. They were blindly clicking the site and filling what already asked/connected to the scam site.
There are still many people who act like bots in crypto.

Quote from: asawale on September 09, 2023, 11:44:56 PM

The account mighty probably be hacked through SIM swap. This is why you should avoid SIM card SMS based authentication to access your account. Switch to hardware based authentication to secure your account and protect yourself and your social media followers who trust everything that comes from you at all time.

I don't think so. If it was getting hacked through simswap and he has been losing everything. This case is a common thing in the x. I saw that so many golden badge accounts were also getting hacked.
I dunno what's wrong with x but this platform is far from good on its security. It's often being hijacked b the hackers. The security owned by x is really weak.

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Quote from: JeromeTash on September 10, 2023, 02:49:20 PM

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The hacked account is his x.com account, and people lost thousands of dollars because they decided to blindly follow a tweet supposedly made by a hacker about some NFTs. Now, how is someone supposed to prove that their account was hacked on not?

I have to admit that i might have fallen into that too. Vitalik might be the last person i would have foreseen getting hacked so i totally understand why people risked their wallets on it. Now the question is HOW did he get hacked?

And people saying that he is making this hack up for money? Are you serious? Same guy who doesn't value money in same ways most people do. Same guy that donated more than $1.2 billion to India Covid Relief Fund just while ago and is known to donate money all the time? That guy would drain wallets? That's insane.

He doesn't have same kind of relationship to money as most people do.

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Quote from: MainIbem on September 10, 2023, 10:21:17 AM

Was it his forum account that got hacked or social media accounts, if social media account how do he get to sign a message for account hack? I was only thing signing a message could be possible here and if such person couldn't prove it then we can say such account is hacked. Sometime people can be too funny he might even signed the message if actually he wanna claimed to be backed.

Looks like you have not been following.

The hacked account is his x.com account, and people lost thousands of dollars because they decided to blindly follow a tweet supposedly made by a hacker about some NFTs. Now, how is someone supposed to prove that their account was hacked on not?

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Thats too bad for those who got victimized with the scam. We cant blame them to pursue such potential free nft however, with massive scams due to hack account of prominent personalities it increases the crime of those scammers. Whatever process they did to hack Vitalik account isnt acceptable. Those should be captured and punish. Maybe Elon Musk could offer some help sincr its happened on his own platform afterall.

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Reference: Vitalik Buterin’s X account hacked, over $691K drained from victims’ wallets

This wasn't the first time that ever happened to a popular personality in the crypto space. There was even those times when celebrities and prominent people in the US were hacked on their Twitter accounts and used by the hackers to advertise a hack and scam.

Quote from: Apocollapse on September 10, 2023, 01:07:58 AM

Plot twist Vitalik Buterin X account wasn't get hacked, but he act like he was get hacked because there's already a victim fall into his scam.

This is possible.

But, whether he's truly hacked or not, there's always these gullible people that follows the flock and herd when a popular person says so. Too sad that before the notice, too many were hacked and gone their funds already.

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Quote from: Apocollapse on September 10, 2023, 01:07:58 AM

Plot twist Vitalik Buterin X account wasn't get hacked, but he act like he was get hacked because there's already a victim fall into his scam.

There's nothing can be trusted here, no proof if Vitalik Buterin was get hacked and we can't verify it. The best way if someone offer anything, you need to ask him to sign a message, so you can know if it's really him or not.

Was it his forum account that got hacked or social media accounts, if social media account how do he get to sign a message for account hack? I was only thing signing a message could be possible here and if such person couldn't prove it then we can say such account is hacked. Sometime people can be too funny he might even signed the message if actually he wanna claimed to be backed.

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Recently just saw the news that Vitalik account has been hacked on a Telegram group .I feel so sorry for those that were scammed there hard-earned money This is a very unfortunate event but its crypto anything can happen lots of scammers everyone. Everyone has to be more careful with his funds to avoid being a victims of those scammers.

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Plot twist Vitalik Buterin X account wasn't get hacked, but he act like he was get hacked because there's already a victim fall into his scam.

There's nothing can be trusted here, no proof if Vitalik Buterin was get hacked and we can't verify it. The best way if someone offer anything, you need to ask him to sign a message, so you can know if it's really him or not.

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VITALIK "X" account (formerly twitter) was hacked resulting into victims losing up to $700K worths of assets to the scammer (hacker).
The account mighty probably be hacked through SIM swap. This is why you should avoid SIM card SMS based authentication to access your account. Switch to hardware based authentication to secure your account and protect yourself and your social media followers who trust everything that comes from you at all time.

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