Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by xvector on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:51PM (#23853340)

These are publicly managed Twitter accounts, they probably don't have any DMs of substance.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by parsimo2010 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:09PM (#23853527)

I'll bet that Bill Gates doesn't have much on his Twitter, but I'll also bet Elon Musk has some crazy DMs.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:09PM (#23854101)

Then again, the market for crazy is pretty saturated these days. Hard to see how to monetize it, at least in Musk's case.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by nvr219 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:28AM (#23859305)

DMing SEC

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by nullc on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:42PM (#23855516)

They potentially had access to any account they wanted. You don't know that they weren't snarfing DMs on interesting accounts while having the celeb accounts panhandle for bitcoin after.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by dx034 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:37AM (#23856726)

Is Musks account really publicly managed? He probably has an agency helping him but I doubt he'd use another account for DMs.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Breza on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:20PM (#23878616)

You'd be surprised. Some celebrities might engage in salacious activities via DM but even the most boring corporation can have lots of customer information in support chats.

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