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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, [5] [6] 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.
The ruse included bogus tweets from Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and several tech billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
A few minutes later, the Buffalo NY website was brought down again. They also hacked Chicago police radios to play N.W.A's "Fuck tha Police". [147] 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.
A Florida teen has been arrested and accused of being the “mastermind” behind Twitter’s recent security and privacy breach. 17-year-old Graham Clark of Tampa, Florida is said to have posed ...
U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he departs on the South Lawn of the White House, on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. Dutch officials find Trump’s Twitter was hacked Skip to ...
31 July 2020 Repeated violations of Twitter rules on hateful conduct and abusive behaviour. [296] Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) Conservative pundit 14 August 2020 Using an account to evade the suspension of another account. [297] Guy Verhoftwat (@guyverhoftwat) Political satire accounts 17 August 2020 Violating Twitter's manipulation and spam ...
Dash Core CEO Ryan Taylor had a nasty surprise yesterday when his social media accounts and cellphone were hacked by “cybercriminals”, who gleefully ran amok with his Twitter account in ...