You'd be surprised, after 10+ years worth of accounts and online presence it's easy to trip up - reuse an account name from years earlier, use their real email to register for a domain, etc. Krebsonsecurity.com has a few articles where he tracks down an attacker's real identity - e.g. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/twitter-hacking-for-prof...

People have lost hundreds of thousands because they reused their forum logins on jabber... Lots (most?) of the people on these forums aren’t hackers, but banking experts moving tens of millions of stolen money around the world.

What's stolen? The user gave contest to us. We are simply acting to that contest.

The US GOV need to focus more on Tether not us because Tether steals billions of dollars directly from economy. Everybody know who is Merlin!

How did they lose the money, impersonation? Are they running some informal banking/laundering system via jabber chats?

Hey, here’s my new bitcoin address for payments:

Hey, here’s the new bank account info to send stolen money to:

Hey bro, can you borrow me 100k for a few days?

We simply ask the user to install an App to iOS or Android that gives us two factor codes. This is done with the user contest. At least, that's how I do these things.

People make mistakes.

Or people just make it look like they’ve made mistakes.

Maybe this was an elaborate honeytrap set by the hackers for the hacker hackers.

Possibly an AI independently hacked the hackers.

A hacker may have convinced an AI to hack the hackers while posing as the hacker hackers. The AI then hacked the hackers’ honeytrap which exposed one single piece of data included by mistake. Only the AI knows why, since the hacker was brainwashed by a secret society of vegans.

News at 11.