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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Calls It A ‘Tough Day' After Massive Hack
2020-07-16
Here's hoping this the beginning of the end of this trash heap.
[DigitalTrends] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said it had been a “tough day” for the team after numerous high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked in a Bitcoin scam on Wednesday, July 15.

“Tough day for us at Twitter,” Dorsey said in a tweet posted at 6.20 p.m. PT, just a few hours after the security breach took place, adding, “We all feel terrible this happened.”

The Twitter boss said his team is now trying to establish precisely how it occurred, and promised to “share everything we can” once the investigating team has more information.

Dozens of high-profile accounts were hit in the scam, with each one posting a message that offered to pay a sender double any payment they made to a Bitcoin wallet address included in the tweet. According to Blockchain.com data, more than $100,000 had been sent to the Bitcoin wallet via more than 370 transactions as of early Wednesday evening.
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Posted by:charger

#11  I'm sure POTUS Trump will commute his sentence: "Mwahahahahha"
Posted by: Frank G   2020-07-16 17:03  

#10  Not another one who perjured himself in front of Congress!
Posted by: Clem   2020-07-16 16:53  

#9  Jack Dorsey said "no such thing as shadow bans" to congress.
That was not true.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-07-16 14:35  

#8  I wonder if the doubling scam is a red herring, and this is really about access to DMs.
Posted by: charger   2020-07-16 12:53  

#7  Screw you, Dorsey. Meanwhile, reports of Russian involvement in 3...2...1....
Posted by: Clem   2020-07-16 11:56  

#6  The Twitter timebomb: Experts warn hackers could swing elections, stock market sand potentially start a WAR after Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk accounts were hijacked in 'biggest ever' security breach
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-07-16 09:53  

#5  If only one of those Iranian fires could go off in one of Twitter's server farms.
Posted by: Raj   2020-07-16 09:19  

#4   It is more than suggested. Look at this article.
Note the active blacklist too..
Posted by: 3dc   2020-07-16 09:06  

#3  Administrative accounts shouldn't be accessible from just anywhere.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-07-16 08:04  

#2  if true, that it was another account with access to these accounts, it exposes a major security & ethics problem at twitter.

an admin account should absolutely not have access to any other account to post things. but twitter with its streak of totalitarianism, i am not surprised.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-07-16 07:16  

#1  ...I have read in other accounts where the hack was in what they call a 'God Mode' account - that is; a fairly high level Twitter admin.

To be a fly on the wall for that debrief...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2020-07-16 04:25  

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