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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.
2020 Twitter account hijacking; 2020 United States federal government data breach; 2021 FBI email hack; 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach; 2021 Natanz incident; 2022 Costa Rican ransomware attack; 2022 DDoS attacks on Romania; 2023 MOVEit data breach; 2024 cyberattack on Kadokawa and Niconico; 2024 WazirX hack
A Twitter employee helped give hackers access to a number of high-profile accounts using an internal tool, according to Motherboard. Twitter employee involved in mass hacking: Report Skip to main ...
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. [149]
The hacker group Anonymous has apparently taken credit for hacking Tucker Carlson’s Twitter account,” his tweet read. “Stop whatever you are doing, and go look at @TuckerCarlson‘s bio ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has threatened to quit Twitter after Elon Musk promoted a “sick” account impersonating the Democratic politician. The New York congresswoman said that she was ...
The accusations are false, according to Twitter. [25] In June 2020, Ali al-Ahmed, a Saudi scholar living in exile in the United States, sued Twitter over the 2016 breach, alleging that the company's negligence resulted in the loss and torture of dissidents within Saudi Arabia. al-Ahmed claimed to have been in continuous contact with a number of ...