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Uber has been hacked as well. At this point, they can get any high profile Twitter user.

EDIT: You know this is a coordinated Twitter hack when they have Apple's account hacked [0]. https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

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I'm guessing a social media manager application got compromised, or an exploit in Twitter's API that allows you to post as someone else. It's hard to see all these different accounts falling for the same scam + not having 2FA, etc.

I wonder if Elon is a type of guy who uses apps like Buffer or Social media manager app. It looks more like some exploit within Twitter which they've leveraged and orchestrated a coordinated tweet attack

They seem to have more access than purely posting as the user, I'm seeing reports that the attacker has changed the email addresses associated with the accounts to protonmail addresses.

All the big names hit said "Twitter Web App" as the tweet source.

Surely any individual client would have had their api keys immediately blocked. It would have to be more like a compromise of, say, the API key back end that allows them to surveil logins over a period of time, and the accounts we are seeing hacked is what they scraped.

They haven't yet gone after the most prominent Twitter user.

That's one of the few accounts that might get you drone striked for messing with. It may stay safe.

Would be too obvious. Noone believes what that account tweets anyway.

40-some% of Americans do according to polling at least :/

What can you tweet to trump supporters for maximum monetization? Crypto scam? Doubt many of them own crypto or know what it is. Get them to send western union/itunes gift cards? Too obvious, will probably get clawed back.

Probably a link to a QAnon mercy store

Voting preference is voting preference. It doesn’t dictate a person’s entire set of beliefs. Personal observations lead me to conclude that plenty of Trump supporters know he’s crazy but still prefer that to the alternative.

They got Joe Biden and Barack Obama's

Yeah, I bet they're too stupid to be able to do it.

(He said, taunting the hackers.)

One wonders if that specific account has some unique exemption in the Twitter code to specifically deal with it.

I'd assume that, too. Given the sheer impact a tweet from him might have, there are probably (hopefully!) two extra layers.

A disgruntled employee "deleted" that account temporarily a while ago, I've seen it theorised on reddit that that account has extra protections now.

Risk/reward for the sitting POTUS just isn't there.

Don't worry guys I just changed my password.

Shame you had to retire the old one, but "hunter3" does have a nice and modern ring to it.

I feel like we already knew this when Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked.

I thought that vulnerability was due to the now-deprecated Tweet by Phone integration and SIM swaps?

Joe Biden, too

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