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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by kristofferR on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:01PM (#23852671)
They're wasting time and money on purpose too, the dead rapper XXXTentacion just tweeted: “Smoking a fat blunt on my private island giving out bitcoin to my supporters”, Elon tweeted "hi" etc.

They also can't be stupid enough to not understand that using a single address that is blocked in most web wallets now is completely dumb.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by dmix on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:14PM (#23853583)
> They also can't be stupid enough to not understand that using a single address that is blocked in most web wallets now is completely dumb.

Everyone always assumes stuff like this after every big criminal case. But every time it turns out that yes they were that stupid.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by tornato7 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:14PM (#23854610)
Occam's Razor. My bet is on it being some teenage hacker who was screwing around with Twitter APIs and noticed a glaring security flaw.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by IIAOPSW on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:25PM (#23853697)
I sometimes get "we hacked your site, pay us bitcoin" spam via a contact page on my website. Once, I decided to send them a few cents to see if they were dumb enough to sweep it somewhere. To my surprise, they really were that dumb. It seems to be in some sort of wash trade loop (maybe a coin tumbler).

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