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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by break_the_bank on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:09PM (#23852811)
They could have probably made a 100k by disclosing this to Twitter. The reward/risk graph seems concave down and not convex up.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by sdan on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:16PM (#23852911)
Twitter says for account takeover hacks, their bounty is set at $7k.

$7k vs $100k, you choose.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by londons_explore on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:28PM (#23853065)
I'm trying to think of other ways to monetize this without ending in prison, and not really coming up with much...

Sure, you could short stocks and then make "Aaah, Tesla is going bankrupt!" tweets... But without an army of lawyers and accountants and money to pay them, it's hard to anonymously short stocks.

You could bribe people with publishing DM's - but again that's pretty high risk. And how do we know that hasn't already happened?

What else is there?

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by ilkkao on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:45PM (#23853279)
Maybe shorting wouldn't have been needed. Just buy from the dip and trust that the stock recovers when twitter confirms hacking. But requires a lot of cash that the attacker probably doesn't have.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by macNchz on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:47PM (#23853296)
Sell the exploit to someone with a bigger appetite for risk?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by VectorLock on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:20PM (#23854196)
Way more effort and risk there, much more difficult without existing underground connections.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:10PM (#23855326)
Why would you need to anonymously short the stock? It feels like it would be easy to get lost in the noise of regular shorts.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by paulpauper on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:23PM (#23852994)
also any attempt at negotiation can be construed as extortion, and now they have all your info too.
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