Who has any thoughts on the Twitter hack?

💣 Zoid Who has any thoughts on the Twitter hack?

🔻 Trinity Prolly just an API access thing. Celebrities allow an app to post to the timeline, forget to revoke the permissions, bam. Guy who did it got like a hundred K or so he'll never be able to liquidate. He should have posted goatse.cc or something.

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💡 Diff Nah apparently there's an internal Twitter administrative tool that was used to change the emails on the accounts. No fault on the user's part. This time :P

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Jayden Elon Musk's DMs will be interesting.

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☕ David Antoine I suppose he was cleaver enough not to use that platform for sensitive data. Problem is, if confirmed, the Twitter employee who participated in this hack. Could have gone even more wrong if it would have been used to look like officials and journalists were announcing something ridiculous like an invasion or a nuclear war. What would be the public reaction? Mobs unleashed? Mass panic and riots? Would people be cleaver enough to think before gobbling up and going nuts? Idk...

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🍔 Rian Rianrian I hope it is not part of a much larger attack targeting elections.

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🐲 Eyght Twitter took way too long to respond, possibly because they thought the issue was with the users and not themselves.

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🥨 Shruthi the dashboard seems super creepy

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🍔 Rian Rianrian Which dash?

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🏀 Pr oh man, I think it's probably the biggest hack in a long time. I wonder if it has to do with their new API being released soon. someone on HN speculated that it was because they were deprecating the old API which may have had the vulnerability.

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😏 Yt L. There have to be better way to monetize.

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💣 Zoid They could've caused a stock plummet and rode the wave.

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🥨 Shruthi in a strange coincidence twtr stock was exactly at the same spot 5 years ago as it is today: ibb.co/Q9b1bvr