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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Joeboy on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:52PM (#23851606)
Those are both tiny sums anyway.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by puranjay on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:28PM (#23852135)
Right, total about $55k received so far. Big numbers, sure, but probably not worth the heat you'd receive with going after such prominent accounts.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by GranPC on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:54PM (#23851644)
2.5 BTC = $23,000
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Joeboy on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:55PM (#23851663)
Right, an inconsequential amount.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by danhak on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:08PM (#23851863)
Don't know why you're getting downvoted here. The after hours moves in TWTR and TSLA (assuming they're mostly attributable to the hack) absolutely dwarf the amount collected by the hack itself. TWTR has shed about $643 million in market cap, TSLA $2.4 billion.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by ceejayoz on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:16PM (#23851959)
Why would an after-hours move of less than a percent in $TSLA be attributable to this hack?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by PeterisP on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:20PM (#23852970)
A bug bounty policy that would have paid out $50k for a vulnerability like this could have prevented all this mess.

A huge impact just to steal (relative) peanuts.

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