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I wasn’t sure what I was looking at, until I googled the Bitcoin address (bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh):

Several high-profile Twitter users, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and the official Uber account appear to have been hacked, and all promoted that address, saying any funds sent to it will be doubled.

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Sounds more like Twitter itself has been compromised on their end at that point.

It's much more likely a common social media marketing platform was compromised.

But then wouldn't these tweets say something other than "Twitter Web App" ?

Users of the middleware likely want to hide the fact that they're scheduling their tweets, I would imagine the tool sets this value explicitly to have the tweets appear more genuine. </postulating>

It's a wide enough range of accounts that it's most likely an internal admin panel.

Special protected accounts (e.g., Trump's) seem unaffected, whereas hundreds (thousands?) of "regular" accounts, high profile and small, are compromised.

A lot happened in the 32 minutes since I posted that.

It seems a total account takeover, not just the ability to send tweets in their name - the email addresses have been reset, see https://twitter.com/sniko_/status/1283485972286656517

If I had to guess, it was an internal job from a disgruntled employee with access to hijack users’ email address. Change their email address, reset password, open the email and then you can login. They might also need access to change the 2FA phone number if it was set.

>Several high-profile Twitter users, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and the official Uber account appear to have been hacked, and all promoted that address, saying any funds sent to it will be doubled.

speculation time: How did those accounts get hacked? Did they all get spearphished? Did twitter get compromised?

Or was it a marketing platform that was owned? I worked for one a few years back and they used the same fb key for all of their 500 musicians they represented. One day facebook enforced key rotation and a bunch of fan sites went dark. Imagine if someone got access to our codebase, this same type of nefarious action would have happened

The curtain has been pulled back for some. Their favorite tweeters aren’t actually tweeting themselves

Edit: I also wonder if it’s an elaborate money laundering scheme. Mix coins with deniability. Combine with the Epstein drama, maybe there’s more to what meets the eye. Either way it’s popcorn time

I do not think this is true. Please tell me what marketing company would both manage Obama's very professional twitter, and at the same time commit fraudulent manipulation of Tesla's stock price.

If what you are saying was true, there would be some sort of evidence. Plus musicians/pop stars are very different from Official corporate twitter.

It's got to be a 3rd party authed w/ the Twitter account, I'd guess.

and to think you could have just bought those bitcoin for like $2000 in 2016 without all the work of having to hack

Bill gates and Bezos not showing up on twitter search. Twitter ghosting some of the affected accounts

You could have bought Bitcoin for $3000 just a few months ago

I did with leftover after a bad investment.

Weirdly enough, sold a half a Bitcoin, made a bad investment, put the rest into Bitcoin, still 0.5BTC.

tons of account hacked. like every single high profile account hacked. either inside job or major exploit

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