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Musk, Obama, Biden, Bezos, Gates—bitcoin scam hits Twitter in coordinated blitz:
Twitter accounts of the rich and famous—including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Joe Biden—were simultaneously hijacked on Wednesday and used to push cryptocurrency scams.
As of 3:58 PM California time, the wallet address used to receive victim’s digital coin had received more than $118,000, though it wasn't clear all of it came from people who fell for the scam. It The bitcoin came from 356 transactions all occurred over about a four-hour span on Tuesday. The wallet address appeared in tweets from at least 15 accounts—some with tens of millions of followers—that promoted fraudulent incentives to transfer money.
“I’m giving back to all my followers,” one now-deleted tweet from Musk’s account said. “I am doubling all payments sent to the Bitcoin address below. You send 0.1 BTC, I send 0.2 BTC back!” A tweet from the Bezos account said the same thing. “Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time,” a Gates tweet said. “I am doubling all payments sent to my BTC address for the next 30 minutes. You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.
Other hijacked accounts belonged to Barack Obama, Apple, Kanye West, and a raft of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs.
[...] That so many social media accounts were taken over in such a short time and remained hijacked for so long is extraordinary if not unprecedented.
[...] As the hijackings continued, Twitter said that while it investigated, it was suspending the ability of many but not all Twitter users to tweet or respond to tweets. Accounts belonging to verified users were unable to use the platform except to send direct messages. Instead they got a message that said: "This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later." Unverified accounts worked normally.
If it looks too good to be true...
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @01:14AM (6 children)
Sensitive winter decorations upset over the choices of others? Noooo say it ain't soooooo.
The irony is quite amusing, you mock people who want equality, justice, and respect for all then turn around and flip your shit about The Linux Foundation changing some technical terminology. Super secure bastions of independence =O.O=
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @01:47AM (2 children)
No. I think it's funny as hell that SJW are brainfucking people into seeing racism where it never was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @01:36PM (1 child)
I will say I always find it ironic when people write about how terms like "blacklist" denigrate black people.
I'm just like, why are you against blacklist, but not denigrate?
Personally, I don't care about "denylists," the terms don't mean much to me other than what they mean, and I can figure out/teach what a denylist is more intuitively than a blacklist anyway. I can understand that people, especially people referred to as black, don't like "black" connoting evil, wrong, or bad, so overall, I'm fine with the changes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:40PM
Yeah, so society is brought down to their dumb level. "Blacklist" has shit all to do with black people. The idiotic ones that want to whine shouldn't get to force everyone to use newspeak. This is about Thought Control pushed by the Bolshevik Jews, and their useful idiots, who are trying to destroy the White Race so they can fulfill their global Jewish supremacy goals.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @01:53AM (1 child)
When you say "equality", "justice", and "respect" while meaning precisely the opposite, the words themselves become tainted with your lie. Case in point, "democrat" became a derogatory label in Russia due to this kind of abuse. Keep striving for the same achievement in other parts of the world, it is within your team's grasp.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @02:52AM
We're better than this. Aren't we?
I'd hope so [ycombinator.com].
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @02:44AM
Nothing wrong with the word "blacklist" is there? [zerohedge.com]