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2020 Twitter account hijacking. At least 130 accounts affected. The bitcoin addresses involved received about US$ 110,000 in bitcoin transactions. On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources ...
John David McAfee (/ ˈ m æ k ə f iː / MAK-ə-fee; 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and in 2020.
Self-described "leading digital security expert" John McAfee appears to have made the age-old mistake of believing his Twitter direct messages were private. Currently in a Spanish prison, awaiting ...
If you're any kind of seasoned attacker, you wouldn't blow your own cover by tweeting from the world's biggest accounts -- for a bitcoin scam. Twitter's Bitcoin hackers had almost limitless access ...
Hackers hijacked dozens of accounts belonging to high-profile individuals on Wednesday to perpetrate a Bitcoin scam.
"First, that Dr. Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin white paper. Second, Dr. Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in the period 2008 to 2011. Third, Dr. Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin system. And, fourth, he is not the author of the initial versions of the Bitcoin software."
Instead, it seems that a Twitter insider provided the hackers with access to an internal tool available to some Twitter employees. The Bitcoin scam that hit Twitter could have been way worse Skip ...
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...