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Last night, many large companies and celebrities appeared on Twitter accounts almost simultaneously records with an offer to transfer them a certain amount in bitcoins, in order to get back twice as much later money. Of course, they were scammers who have made one of the most massive hacker attacks.
They hacked many verified profiles, including the accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West and even Apple, where until this day there was no tweet. Messages of a different plan appeared in the accounts of Bitcoin, Ripple, Coinbase and Binance - they promised to distribute 5 thousand bitcoins to users. It was only necessary to follow the link, which, of course, led to a fake site.
Twitter limited the sending of new tweets to all verified accounts only an hour after the attack. After some time, the company's developers reported that hackers hacked into Twitter employees, thanks to which they managed to gain access to many user profiles.
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.
- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020
We discovered what we consider to be a coordinated social engineering attack from humans, successfully attacking some of our employees and gaining access to internal systems and tools.
The Web's reaction to this massive hack was not long in coming. Collected the best jokes, memes and opinions about the situation.
“The whole Twitter account was hacked there! FULLY! " (RostigeSchadel) pic.twitter.com/W789CZmEIt
- Fusin Territory 🐾 (@fusinaterritor) July 16, 2020
hackers hacked the twitter of the future mayor of nizhny novgorod, mitya dostoevsky. they published a message asking them to send them nude in dm. In just two hours, hackers managed to get more than five dikpiks at their disposal
- Mitya Dostoevsky (@ D0CT0EBCKNN) July 16, 2020
Realized that I was not a celebrity when hackers didn't hack my account at night
- Bob Farber (@Bobchensk) July 16, 2020
Alabama hackers hacked the Vkontakte pages of Medvedev, Rogozin, Dzhigurda, Yandex. Taxi, Yotafon, as well as the singer Shura wrote fake requests to send money to their Kiwi wallet. Fraudsters managed to earn a deafening 3200 rubles.
- Dmitriy Zombak (@zombak) July 16, 2020
Mood: write your card number, with a request to throw a money on it, and then say that it was not me, hackers just hacked me.
- Artyom Deryagin (@DerArto) July 16, 2020
Okay, Twi Gates got hacked, so we're all already microchipped
- lin 🌺P⃤ (@lin_in_hell) July 15, 2020
It seems I was not hacked. How do you like Elon Musk?
- ShandybinMen (@IchbinShandybin) July 16, 2020
I have only one question for hackers: why didn't they hack Trump's Twitter account?
- Bourgeois (+ & *) SQUARE (@ ivangoe4) July 16, 2020
Hackers who hacked the tweets of famous personalities were content with crumbs, but could manipulate futures in such a way, managing the algorithms of robotic traders using fake tweets, that everyone would not have enough it seemed.
By the way, this is how fundamental changes can begin in the 21st century.
- HigherCause (@highercause) July 16, 2020
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