Or a distraction while a bigger hack is going on?
If it's a third party API key with special priviledged that they hacked, the potential harm is limited.
If they have access to the full system, they could be sending millions of ghost messages to some part of the population right now to get them to do something while we all watch the BTC show:
- scam them
- get them infected to gather a massive bot net
- make them very angry and start some kind of civil unrest in a specific part of the world
- cover a currently happening terrible event somewhere so that we don't learn about it too soon because twitter is the faster medium for that
At this point I realize how critical twitter has became to shape the way we view the world, and govs should worry a lot that this can be happening and act on it quickly.
Unlikely since the tweets appeared from "Twitter Web App"
They also can't be stupid enough to not understand that using a single address that is blocked in most web wallets now is completely dumb.
Everyone always assumes stuff like this after every big criminal case. But every time it turns out that yes they were that stupid.
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Of course I can understand if you somehow unable or unwilling to talk about it, but I'm really curious and it can't hurt to ask :).
I mean, if you spent $$$$ shorting Tesla stock, then a week later the stock nosedived in response to a tweet and you made a big profit, that doesn't prove you were behind the tweet.
It wouldn't even be illegal, unless there was independent proof you were behind the hack. Without that, you just placed a bet which happened to be a lucky one - just like anyone else who was short Tesla.
Yes, it would be ... but it would also be hard to prove.
I'd be surprised if that even got you interviewed, let alone searched for hacking tools.
Unless they've fingered you by some other means, in which case it's irrelevant how you were planning to get the money out.