Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by whoisjuan on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:21PM (#23852983)

They just disabled tweeting from verified accounts. Right now I have more power than Elon.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by DevX101 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:42PM (#23853248)

Good. This should have been done an hour ago. Fortunately the attackers weren't nearly as malicious as they could have been.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by PatrolX on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:45PM (#23853274)

They can still RT.

See here:

https://twitter.com/asculthorpe/status/1283531636450230274

@TheRegister (verified) just RT'd for help.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by slg on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:00PM (#23854023)

Honestly I'm kind of enjoying seeing what it is doing to my feed with only unverified accounts and verified retweets. Twitter hasn't been this much fun in months.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by elboru on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:47PM (#23854420)

Some accounts are back again: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128356244619659673...

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by codezero on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:39PM (#23853200)

can confirm - my wife has a verified account and a company account and both are unable to tweet, though one can still quote retweet apparently, but probably just a lagging feature flag.

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