somebody got into all of these v i. P s everyone from Joe Biden to deal must apple and they were able to coast one message that said, Send us Bitcoin so we can return it back to times to you and a couple people dead. And they think about $100,000 went to the scammers. Eso It caused a huge uproar be house trivial, as was his hack. And they had to shut down key parts of the system for a couple hours at site. The scam itself was a fat bad. The bigger concern is that these scammers could do it. These hackers actually got into the systems of all of these people. And the difference here isn’t that they didn’t break into the end users accounts they broke through through this Twitter system account. So this is a capability within Twitter to be able to go into people’s accounts and take control of them. They could have just cutting pace of the same message. But every single one of them was crafted to the way that that leader I would speak to their audiences. It was not only the fact that they could do this but they could emulate the tone and the cadence and that voice of each of those people. Twitter’s response has been. We know we have a problem when we’re working on it, trust us, which is in many ways not adequate because it was such a big breach happens. You want to answer for the fact that why was there one single point of failure here versus multiple ways to make sure that nothing goes wrong? Trust is the core issue here. Do we trust Twitter with our accounts to be trusted, they were going to do the right thing. And when your credibility is hurt biting incident like this, you have to work extra hard to rebuild that reputation. We build that trust.
3 people, including 17-year-old, charged following massive Twitter hack
Updated: 4:38 PM EDT Jul 31, 2020
A British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday. Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren says 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark, of Tampa, faces more than 30 felony fraud charges. Meanwhile, Mason Sheppard, 19, of Bognor Regis, U.K., and Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, were charged in a California federal court.Authorities say the three were behind the massive hack that targeted the accounts of high-profile users including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and others.The July 15 attack was one of the most high-profile security breaches in recent years. The attackers sent out tweets from the accounts of the public figures, offering to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to an anonymous Bitcoin address.“These crimes were perpetrated using the names of famous people and celebrities, but they’re not the primary victims here. This ‘bit-con’ was designed…
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