Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by koolba on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:48PM (#24013088)

If they were dumb enough to waste such a high value target on a small scale bitcoin scam then I wouldn’t be surprised if they were dumb enough to perform the malicious actions from their home IP address.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by focus2020 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:59AM (#24018632)

What else could have been done other than crypto scam to get away without being caught ?

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by SV_BubbleTime on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:49PM (#24013105)

Didn’t the hack need internal access? VPN maybe?

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by function_seven on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:06PM (#24013296)

Sure, but if they connected to the VPN from their own IP, then that's not going to hide anything.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by thinkloop on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:28PM (#24014386)

Is connecting to a VPN through another secure VPN doable/benefit?

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by Nacraile on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:42PM (#24014532)

Doable, although annoying to configure correctly. Beneficial if you want to obscure your identity from the second VPN server (i.e. Twitter's, in this case, which ought to be logging connections)

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by ehsankia on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:55PM (#24014652)

Really seems like a modern day MafiaBoy.

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