Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack?

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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/

By Brian Krebs
Krebs on Security
July 16, 2020

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the 
world’s most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities 
starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack 
happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing 
access to internal Twitter administrative tools. This post is an attempt 
to lay out some of the timeline of this attack, and point to clues about 
who may have been behind it.

The first public signs of the intrusion came around 3 PM EST, when the 
Twitter account for the cryptocurrency exchange Binance tweeted a message 
saying it had partnered with “CryptoForHealth” to give back 5000 bitcoin 
to the community, with a link where people could donate or send money.

Minutes after that, similar tweets went out from the accounts of other 
cryptocurrency exchanges, and from the Twitter accounts for democratic 
presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, President Barack 
Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and 
investment mogul Warren Buffet.

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