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   From: postman@buttboi.iad   
      
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   Twitter has been hacked. But it seems that it's not individual   
   accounts that have been hacked or even a more feasible API   
   attack stemming from a third-party service breach. Increasingly,   
   it looks like a hack specifically targeting some of the highest-   
   profile users on the site has successfully breached Twitter's   
   user management panel.   
      
   All of which is to say, Jack Dorsey needs to leave whatever   
   seance or ice bath he's currently in and shut the site down. Now.   
      
   The current accounts targeted include those of presumptive   
   Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, former President   
   Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Jeff Bezos,   
   Michael Bloomberg, Apple, and Uber. The accounts are all posting   
   some iteration of the following:   
      
   Massive Twitter hack underway by Bitcoin scammers:   
      
   - Bill Gates   
   - Elon Musk   
   - Joe Biden   
   - Warren Buffett   
   - Kanye West   
   - Michael Bloomberg   
   - Apple   
   - Uber   
   - Jeff Bezos   
   - Barack Obama pic.twitter.com/5uSngaBdrZ   
      
   — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 15, 2020   
   As far as Bitcoin bait goes, this attempt is a relative failure,   
   given the sheer scope of the followers the hacking targets have.   
   Despite reaching audiences of tens of millions of followers, the   
   hackers evidently haven't scammed more than six figures from the   
   public. (They've gotten $116,109.20 as of this writing.) But   
   less important than the money is the fact that Twitter has   
   likely been internally compromised. This breach could culminate   
   in something a lot more serious.   
      
   For example, consider what falsehoods a hacker could believably   
   post from the trigger-happy President Trump. If this hacker   
   could breach Twitter's user management panel, perhaps another   
   with more tact could as well and post falsehoods from prominent   
   accounts to rig markets. Worse yet, just imagine the   
   international conflagrations that could be started with   
   everything from fake tweets to search, data, and direct message   
   leaks.   
      
   Twitter needs to shut down until it figures out what the hell is   
   going on. It has a massive security problem that will take a lot   
   longer than today to fix fundamentally, but in the short run, it   
   needs to suture the wound and pause the site's functionality.   
      
   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/shut-down-twitter-now   
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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