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Twitter CEO's Twitter Account Hacked [update: resolved]
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Hopefully this will lead to a clapback against white nationalism on Twitter, although I am not holding my breath, considering Jack follows a lot of fachy people.
i would assume that from his account without it getting hacked though
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20 minutes to resolve the issue of the CEO's account being hacked is hilarious. Why do I even use Twitter?
What the fuck is it with these people hacking peoples' accounts and adding in the weird #chuckling stuff?
Twitter Comms @TwitterComms
We're aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened.
4:05 PM - Aug 30, 2019
We're aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened.
4:05 PM - Aug 30, 2019
All these internet hackers are probably the same ones that visit all these 4Chan type sites. So they all have really bad cringe/offensive humor that is so dated. It's like they are all 13yr old high school kids that vape on 4-20 and celebrate Hitler's birthday
Yeah, I bet even his own people wouldn't know if he sent it or someone else.
Embarrassing as hell that hackers can even get into the CEO's account with what was probably little to no difficulty.
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Sorta called it maybe.
It likely has semi-frequent password changes, 2FA (but email and app only), and Trump probably doesn't know his own passwords. That's probably his assistant's job.
That's all that's required for a safe account. Jack's stuff was probably spoofed.
Its such a missed opportunity. Imagine how much chaos you could cause.
A simple controversial but not entirely out there tweet, example - "For people that ask me, I wish we could ban Trump's account (he actually used a racial slur last time we spoke in private) but its too important and we cannot."
Thats all. Dont tweet anything else. Just log out and never return.
And then see how many people believe the "The account was hacked" press release that goes out.
Indeed. Hackers are lame. If you're going to risk getting yourself thrown in jail pull a stunt like this by just being an awful miserable person anyway, might as well go all the way by hacking POTUS and having some fun/creativity while you're at it, and tweet something completely outlandish but with just that .00001% chance of bring true given it's Trump like:
"The #FakeNews were about to spoil what was supposed to be a wonderful birthday surprise so I'm forced to announce early that Ivanka, who CNN was very mean to, will be the new VPOTUS "ASAP"! Happy birthday sweetie and than you Mike Pence for 3 years of service!"
Or:
"I didn't want to do this, but the #GOP have failed to get me my wall for far too long! Therefore, effective immediately, I'm switching to the Democratic Party and passing all of Nancy Pelosi's "AWFUL" deficit "exploding" bills unless Mitch McConnell gets me my "wall!" #MAGA"
Y'know, something like that, that despite 99.99999% of being fake, would have that tiny bit of doubt given that it's Trump and cause a bunch of chaos until people figure out what's going on. Since if you're going to go out and be an idiot anyway like that, might as well go out big, instead of lame stuff like this that will be forgotten in 5 seconds. I don't get this at all.
Im going to be honest, this is not the correct way too look at the situation. You shouldnt encourage such behaviour from either side. Hacking accounts to create shitshows helps no one.
Ryan Mac @RMac18
Twitter statement on @jack:
"The phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider. This allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number. That issue is now resolved."
8:14 PM - Aug 30, 2019
Twitter statement on @jack:
"The phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider. This allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number. That issue is now resolved."
8:14 PM - Aug 30, 2019
Reading up on how trivially an employee was bribed into cloning a sim, I can't help but think there really should be federal laws against banks and other major institutions offering SMS-only MFA. Talk about a hot, open, gaping hole in everyone's personal security when they can't be assed to spend the day it would take to offer app-based MFA.