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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.
2020 Romans-sur-Isère knife attack: A 33-year-old man stabbed 7 people before being arrested by police. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism. [15] Abdallah Ahmed-Osman Islamic terrorism in Europe: 28 April Grenade attack 53: 50+ Afrin, Syria 2020 Afrin bombing: A grenade caused a fuel tanker to explode near a market and a ...
In 2020, Donald Trump pardoned cybersecurity executive Chris Wade for crimes that had been sealed. Unsealed documents show he was part of a sophisticated spam email operation busted by an informant.
Under its "civic integrity" policy created in 2018 and expanded in May 2020, [368] [369] Twitter scrutinizes statements that may affect participation in democracy. Twitter has invited certain nonprofits to flag problematic tweets in this subject area. [370] Twitter also announced on May 11 that it would begin to flag "misleading information."
Facebook and Twitter have made efforts in recent weeks to provide fact-check labels and notices to posts supporting debunked or refuted stories and posts to help stem the tide of such content on ...
A news item involving 2020 Twitter account hijacking was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on Wikipedia This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Twitter, in fact, has made it much more difficult for people to join @realDonaldTrump. They have removed many names & greatly slowed the level and speed of increase. They have acknowledged-done ...