2020 Twitter account hijacking
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, reportedly 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly. They appeared to have used social engineering to gain access to the tools via Twitter employees. Three individuals were arrested by authorities on July 31, 2020 and charged with wire fraud, money laundering, identity theft, and unauthorized computer access related to the scam.
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2020 Twitter account hijacking
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, reportedly 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly. They appeared to have used social engineering to gain access to the tools via Twitter employees. Three individuals were arrested by authorities on July 31, 2020 and charged with wire fraud, money laundering, identity theft, and unauthorized computer access related to the scam.
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A representative scam tweet, from Apple's hacked account.
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Coordinated social engineering attack
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A tweet from Apple, which read ...... g on for the next 30 minutes."
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At least 130 accounts affected. The bitcoin addresses involved received about
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in bitcoin transactions.
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High-profile verified Twitter accounts
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On July 15, 2020, between 20:0 ...... er access related to the scam.
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2020 Twitter account hijacking
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