• Technology: hacking Twitter: an attack from within
  • Scam - massive hacking of Apple, Uber, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and other personalities in a scam attempt

The hackers involved in hacking high-profile Twitter accounts were young friends with no ties to organized crime, The New York Times reported on Friday .

The attack, which both Twitter and the federal police are investigating, began with a message among hackers on the Discord platform , a popular chat service among gamers , according to the Times.

The newspaper has interviewed four people who participated in the hack , and who have shared records and screenshots of what happened. "Interviews indicate that the attack was not the work of a country, such as Russia , or of a sophisticated group of hackers," reports the Times .

Instead, it was the work of a group of young people, one of whom says that he lives at home with his mother, who met because of his obsession with having unusual names on networks, in particular a letter or number, such as @ and @ 6 ".

Doubts about Twitter security

The massive attack on high-profile user accounts, from Elon Musk to Joe Biden , has raised questions about the security of Twitter, a network that serves as a platform for American politicians before the November elections.

"According to what we know at the moment, approximately 130 accounts were attacked by hackers, " Twitter said in a tweet. "The attackers took control of a small subset of these accounts and then tweeted from them."

From the official accounts of Apple , Uber , Kanye West , Bill Gates , Barack Obama and many others, the pirates tried to trick the public into sending them money in the form of bitcoins, a virtual currency.

Twitter has said it appeared to be a "coordinated attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal tools and systems."

The fraudulent messages, which were later largely eliminated, asked users to send within $ 1,000 in bitcoin cryptocurrencies within half an hour, promising that they would receive double in return.

More than $ 100,000 in bitcoins was forwarded to the email addresses mentioned in the tweets, Blockchain.com , which monitors cryptocurrency transactions , has indicated .

The young hackers interviewed by the Times say that a mysterious user named "Kirk" started the scheme with a message and was the one who had access to Twitter accounts.

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