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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by rsanheim on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:42PM (#23852355)
Yes, of course. Take the site down if you don't have a read only mode or something. You are losing millions in trust every minute this hack goes on.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jcims on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:26PM (#23853051)
They just disabled posts from verified users.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by mlindner on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:42PM (#23853238)
Yes, but it took them nearly 2 hours to do that, in the middle of the work day no less.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by swagonomixxx on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:18PM (#23853631)
Its that epic WFH productivity!
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by azernik on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:54PM (#23853965)
I doubt this is a productivity issue or an infrastructure issue - shutting off write access is a major business and reputational loss, and I can easily see cultural factors pushing people not to take that step.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by blisseyGo on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:41AM (#23855829)
Was this for verified users only? Or is that only verified users were targeted?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by cryptoz on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:45PM (#23852419)
Indeed, already billions in trust lost so far, guessing by the ~4+% after-hours TWTR drop.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by throwaway43234 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:13PM (#23852858)
To be fair, it's still higher than yesterday's low. It's not like TWTR is known to increase over time anyways.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by eternalban on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:54PM (#23852569)
This is possibly a blessing in disguise. Obama and Biden's accounts have been hacked as well so this basically just burned Twitter as an international political platform.

Following that thought, it is entirely possible the whole point of the hack is to discredit Twitter and the bitcoin bit is just smoke.

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