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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by tbrock on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:48PM (#23855561)
I think you greatly overestimate the value of this. It’s a sham, everyone makes a few tweets, it’s on the news and it’s fixed and over tomorrow.

Very little damage done that isn’t obviously corrected/correctable short term. In other words, who cares?

I’d pay tree fiddy for this exploit. On the other hand, this person seems to be making BANK getting 13 BTC as of now.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jessriedel on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:58PM (#23855630)
You could move many, many millions of dollars on the stock market with these accounts. Would require more care and/or tricks to avoid being apprehended than a simple anonymous bitcoin scheme, but the pay off could have been at least a couple of orders of magnitude higher.
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