Fascinating detective work in this article:
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or...
Updated info from Twitter themselves:
An update on our security incident and what we know so far.
And they caught him:
A 17-year-old Tampa man was arrested Friday morning after the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice discovered he was behind an extensive Twitter hack, which temporarily gave him access to the accounts of Bill Gates,...
And two accomplices:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/three-individuals-charged-alleged-roles-twitter-hack
And now others are using the same method, which has been dubbed phone spear phishing:
“Phone spear phishing” attacks have been on the rise since a bitcoin scam took over the social media platform in July.
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