So these guys were able to get into Twitter but they chatted freely on Discord without considering everything would be recorded?
And then they make one of the most public hacks in recent history without considering someone would go through all the logs with all the noise they made?
Didn't even layer the Bitcoin through an anonymiser like Monero and extra Bitcoin wallets. Just sent and received BTC directly to an account linked with photo ID on multiple exchanges. Incredible really!
How can you do a hack that will certainly get you in jail for several years and not even research the most basic techniques to protect yourself? It just doesn't make sense.
It's because social engineering attacks are noisy as heck. Within 30 minutes of them posting these tweets, you can bet the FBI was already on the line with Twitter's security team.
The fact that they chose to do this attack at all demonstrates how amateur they were.