Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,239,354 members, 8,111,215 topics. Date: Friday, 21 March 2025 at 02:19 AM

High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers - Programming (5) - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Science/Technology / Programming / High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers (49367 Views)

Bitcoin Scammers Hacked High Profile U.S Twitter Accounts - Obama, Bill Gates / High Profile Twitter Account Hijacked By Security Firm / Twitter Accounts For Sale! (2) (3) (4)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) ... (11) (Reply) (Go Down)

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by fairheart(m): 3:10am On Jul 16, 2020
seanwilliam:



Shut up ode! So na only dem Russian and china dey build software and tools,, u dont know how things work..and besides what I'm telling is that never underestimate naija guys when it comes to do with anything about money.. get that straight to your dumbass head.. and no dey call naija boys failure, know wetin u go dey talk before I send thunder to faya your face grin
The bold line is example of the problem with Nigerians. You are a youth for God sake. Why say what you can't do? You can't understand the difference between sophisticated hacking from using application, na you won send me thunder? You better go and sleep. I no get your time

8 Likes

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by myles16(m): 3:11am On Jul 16, 2020
PaulSimon2020:
Dude, Twitter is not an ordinary web app. This type of attack is not something you can perform with tools you buy over the internet. This is something you do with tools you created yourself to suit the environment. Nigerians are not there yet! cool cool



I didn't say those hackers are Nigerians, but you yourself is not sure they are not Nigerians...No 1 rule of hackers is to hide their identity, I am just clearing that guy that he shouldn't underestimate Nigerians too

And you can't just assume twitter can't be hacked with a tool bought, it depends on how good the hacker is and his techniques, human beings are different. Because you can't do something doesn't mean another person can't do that same thing

1 Like

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by myles16(m): 3:18am On Jul 16, 2020
fairheart:

That guy na mumu. He no sabi anything.


Na shit dey your head, shebi Dem don give you Visa Leave Naija abeg, the people wey go rest on top your neck dey await you
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by seanwilliam(m): 3:29am On Jul 16, 2020
fairheart:

The bold line is example of the problem with Nigerians. You are a youth for God sake. Why say what you can't do? You can't understand the difference between sophisticated hacking from using application, na you won send me thunder? You better go and sleep. I no get your time
how can you be so sure and dumb that some Nigeria cant be software/tools from scratch? U be ode oloun!
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by seanwilliam(m): 3:33am On Jul 16, 2020
fairheart:

The bold line is example of the problem with Nigerians. You are a youth for God sake. Why say what you can't do? You can't understand the difference between sophisticated hacking from using application, na you won send me thunder? You better go and sleep. I no get your time
what I'm saying is that you cant be so sure naija no get hand in that deal or dat naija not get the brain for it
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Andrew13: 3:35am On Jul 16, 2020
PaulSimon2020:
Dude, Twitter is not an ordinary web app. This type of attack is not something you can perform with tools you buy over the internet. This is something you do with tools you created yourself to suit the environment. Nigerians are not there yet! cool cool
don't mind that guy grin he does not know anything
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by scilover: 3:36am On Jul 16, 2020
It's scary to think these high profile twitter accounts got hacked so easily.....nowadays, no one is really secure or safe anymore on the internet.

1 Like 1 Share

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Onlinesmart: 3:42am On Jul 16, 2020
PaulSimon2020:
Don't waste your time with some of these folks. They actually think that script kiddies are hackers grin grin. These type of attacks are usually perpetrated by nation sponsored hackers. This is probably an advanced persistent attack. They must have crafted it over months in making. Wish they hacked Trump's account, it's probably Russians his friends cool cool
You're right. All the hacked accounts are famous Americans only. This kind of job has Russians traces init.
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by thatigboman: 3:44am On Jul 16, 2020
LilMissRobbie:
Verified Twitter accounts can not tweet as of now because Twitter is currently working on rectifying the breach. That's the reason why our duuurrrrling NCDC is yet to knack us today's livescores grin cheesy grin
fed min of information tweeted the covivid result and NCDC retweeted

1 Like

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by membranus: 3:46am On Jul 16, 2020
Depressed101:
This hacker went home with a whopping 12 btc shocked

For the novice like me, what could be the estimated Dollar value of this 12btc?
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Lordspicy(m): 3:52am On Jul 16, 2020
Where is sexylassie2 comman follow this case up. Awon fbi investigator
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Uckroot: 3:57am On Jul 16, 2020
scilover:
It's scary to think these high profile twitter accounts got hacked so easily.....nowadays, no one is really secure or safe anymore on the internet.

High profile individuals are the EASIEST people to hack.

1 Like

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by juniorstar(m): 4:08am On Jul 16, 2020
this Job was most likely done by trump friends from russia..
to do two things one
1.to dicredit twitter cos of its issue with trump
2. its election season in the US and they intend sending some political stuff via those handles to discredit other contenders in the election and support trump
# i dont think its becos of the money cos most messages If not all had the same format. who does dat. different personalities same format. dem no try. at least e still work on some gullible fellas
# dont underestimate Nigerians ooh. some nigerians dey wey neva step foot for nigeria oo. we are talented both in good and bad ways. DATS WHY they had to introduce a guy from nigeria in the series billions for his brains cos they recognize our expertise.

4 Likes 1 Share

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by correctguy2010: 4:11am On Jul 16, 2020
loneprof:


Bros Bill Gates' account was hacked. No be Naija scammer go run that kind package. E too advanced. Try Russians, Chinese etc... Not Naija. Hopefully the culprit would be caught soon and we'll see. Till then I rest my case.

It's Russian guys that can pull such hack. Fear Russia hackers

6 Likes 1 Share

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by correctguy2010: 4:17am On Jul 16, 2020
myles16:



Don't underestimate Nigerians o, if you see better tools like Burp Suite pro and better VMware with a strong Network and you know what you're doing... Within some few hours you'd hack those accounts... Don't let inferiority complex disturb you
Stop deceiving yourself... Na Russian guys do dis one. Any Nigerian involved in this must have been trained in Russia... Na Russians run dis one.

2 Likes

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Nobody: 4:24am On Jul 16, 2020
correctguy2010:

Stop deceiving yourself... Na Russian guys do dis one. Any Nigerian involved in this must have been trained in Russia... Na Russians run dis one.

An Amateur can run this hack. This is social engineering at its peak. Twitter was definitely hacked because sensitive security information was collected from a top security staff at Twitter. Anyone would do that if they had such information. It's more like getting details of Nairaland from Lalasticlala or Dominique who can ban people and instead of banning the people you decide to post a scam with Nwaamaikpe 's profile because he's popular here.
Mostly a function of luck and connection.

Now the American government will find a proper reason to regulate Bitcoin.

7 Likes

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Clothingonline9(m): 4:24am On Jul 16, 2020
Hackers
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by BornRicch(m): 4:25am On Jul 16, 2020
loneprof:
Some of you typing "Nigerians" seem not to know that IT knowledge in this part of the world is still limited. Scams like this one are usually the work of an insider or from more advanced countries like Russia, China, India or the US itself. I don't really know for sure, but I'm willing to bet it's not a Nigerian. Hushpuppi and co. just send business compromise emails to get account details with fake internet IDs, I believe this is way advanced...
I would have love to insult you but I will reserve my comment... Why do you think Russia, India and China are behind it? How about if it's someone somewhere that's not even from the countries you mentioned above. Have sense abeg nah the problem I dey get with some Naija people like you acting wise but your upstairs nothing dey inside. Business compromise emails nah Ali baba work be that, if you know you know. No be small pikin work you need wisdom and lots of effort sitting with your laptop every minute. Nothing is easy in this life. Respect Nigeria even though we're not very good in hacking but I'm certain if we make up our mind to do it Russia, China, India no go fit outsmart us. Ask Facebook how far!!!
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Chirowman(m): 4:25am On Jul 16, 2020
scam get level this one go dey jail for Cuba when caught.
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by IBvoss(m): 4:27am On Jul 16, 2020
It might be China! lol. Think about it, they've been threatening retaliation on the US for the recent heavy sanctions and ban of Huawei 5g in UK. This is just a warm-up.
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by BornRicch(m): 4:30am On Jul 16, 2020
dejavuh0007:
I can't believe some fools still fell for it.

You be mumu big M U M U. Do you think one are expose to know everything in this life. Tell me someone haven't taking you for a ride before?

1 Like

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by madridguy(m): 4:44am On Jul 16, 2020
This is serious. shocked shocked shocked
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Openbusiness3: 4:55am On Jul 16, 2020
A tweet like this can never work on me because anytime I hear anything Bitcoin, crypto currency etc, I just run away straight grin

2 Likes

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Openbusiness3: 4:57am On Jul 16, 2020
Many of their zombie followers would have rushed to click and do the payments cuz they are zombies that can't think for themselves grin

1 Like

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Openbusiness3: 4:59am On Jul 16, 2020
Plot twist: what if it wasn't a hack job but was actually an insider job with the NEW WORLD ORDER CULT these guys belong to, and they all know about it but pretend it was a hack? grin
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Prince2bad(m): 5:02am On Jul 16, 2020
with the recent tension between US and CHINA, it could be that this is only a faced retaliation following the expulsion/ban of China private owned giant company from UK fueled by Donald Trump
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Nobody: 5:04am On Jul 16, 2020
SouthWestBlood:
These hackers just raked in millions of dollars in minutes.
No these hackers are very dumb and stupid, they maid only $118k. This Bitcoin scam is very famous on twitter and a lot of people with Bitcoin wallets have seen it before. They had access to the accounts of very famous people, all they would have done is Tweet something bad about Tesla from Elons account and crash Tesla stocks, Do the same to Amazon and buy it at a very cheaper price then sell back when it goes back up and make 10s of millions! That's exactly what Lester did in GTA 5, in a way gaming can make you smarter grin

14 Likes

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by samsard(m): 5:05am On Jul 16, 2020
samsam2019:
People behind it would be swimming in 100s of million dollars right now
Only fools would have fallen for it. anyway smart enough invest in Bitcoin will easily see through such a scam.
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by samsard(m): 5:08am On Jul 16, 2020
ethicallyright:


An Amateur can run this hack. This is social engineering at its peak. Twitter was definitely hacked because sensitive security information was collected from a top security staff at Twitter. Anyone would do that if they had such information. It's more like getting details of Nairaland from Lalasticlala or Dominique who can ban people and instead of banning the people you decide to post a scam with Nwaamaikpe 's profile because he's popular here.
Mostly a function of luck and connection.

Now the American government will find a proper reason to regulate Bitcoin.
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Openbusiness3: 5:08am On Jul 16, 2020
This doesn't look like a coincidence to me. All these accounts have something in common, they are all New World Order Democrats. Most likely it was done by their cult to raise quick cash nearly impossible to trace and promote bitcoins currency scam they are trying to push to the world to accept. If u no u no.
Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Xisnin(m): 5:09am On Jul 16, 2020
Inside job from a disgruntled or "activist" employee.

1 Like

Re: High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked By Bitcoin Scammers by Starz825(m): 5:13am On Jul 16, 2020
*hush puppies* at it again??! grin

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) ... (11) (Reply)

How Much Will It Cost Me To Design a mobile APP In Nigeria / Web Application Development Contest: Jajad Wins / Mass Resignation Of Software Engineers Disrupts Banks Digitisation Move

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2025 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 38
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.