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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by kristofferR on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:35PM (#23852237)
No way, it's way too widepread and would be shut down by now.

Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Wiz Khalifa just tweeted the scam again this very minute, more than an hour since it started. This is backend access, Twitter can't figure out how to shut it down.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jacquesm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:42PM (#23852352)
They could have shut these bitcoin giveaway scams down with a single regex a year ago when they first showed up. They let them go and this is the price they will pay. Let's see if someone is going to sue Twitter because 'verified' to be Bill Gates is meaningless now.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by saagarjha on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:43PM (#23852381)
This is much, much worse than a typical Bitcoin scam.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jacquesm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:55PM (#23852578)
It has the same textual footprint. These tweets should be quarantined automatically until expressly checked by a human being.
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