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On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [4] [5] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
In case 2020 wasn’t dystopian enough, hackers on July 15 hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian and ...
June: Over 1,000 accounts on multiplayer online game Roblox were hacked to display that they supported U.S. President Donald Trump. [148] July: The 2020 Twitter bitcoin scam occurred. July: User credentials of writing website Wattpad were stolen and leaked on a hacker forum. The database contained over 200 million records.
Graham Clark, 17, was the "mastermind" of the mid-July attack that targeted the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and others, authorities said. Florida teen charged in massive Twitter hack ...
The game was initially launched on April 13, 2022 [138] as a paid beta game, costing 50 Robux to access, and officially released as free-to-play three days later. [137] Reaching 70 million plays [ 139 ] and 275,000 concurrent players in the first week of its release, it broke the record for the largest launch on Roblox, and it would reach 500 ...
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system built around user-generated content and games, [8] [9] officially referred to as "experiences". [10] Games can be created by any user through the platforms game engine, Roblox Studio, [11] and then shared to and played by other players. [8]
On 11 July 2018, The New York Times reported that Twitter would begin to delete fake follower accounts to increase the authenticity of the platform. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The issue of fake follower accounts was highlighted in 2016 when Russian trolls , using both human-operated and bot accounts to appear legitimate, leveraged Twitter's reach among ...