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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by whoisjuan on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:21PM (#23852044)
And it seems that it's still compromised. Tweets get deleted and then they re-appear.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Narretz on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:59PM (#23852625)
30 minutes later and it still happens, just after "Elon" posted a normal message. Hopefully most users have caught on to the scam by now.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by epanchin on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:23PM (#23853671)
Crazy twitter can’t pin a warning to everyone’s feed... or just kill the site.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by manquer on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:44PM (#23853891)
they have killed tweeting from verified accounts and also blocking tweeting that BTC address to mitigate the damage.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by slezyr on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:34PM (#23852229)
> All Bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled. If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000!

> Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy.

No, it's hacker's doing, they need to keep timestamps updated

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