{"id":10360,"date":"2020-07-16T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=10360"},"modified":"2020-07-16T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T03:21:09","slug":"twitter-got-hacked-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/twitter-got-hacked-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter got hacked&#8230; HARD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight Twitter had a series of high profile accounts, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian, breached in order to post a tweet asking for donations to an anonymous Bitcoin wallet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/reckoner.localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gateshack.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now believed that the accounts were taken over via a highly coordinated social engineering attack on a Twitter employee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/jgxd3d\/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motherboard first reported details of the attack<\/a>, with screenshots of Twitter&#8217;s internal tools being posted to a series of hacker forums detailing how the accounts were being taken over.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has since taken steps to remove posts and images regarding the hack from their own platform as the conduct a deeper investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/twitter-accounts-of-elon-musk-bill-gates-and-others-hijacked-to-promote-crypto-scam\/\">Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others hijacked to promote crypto scam | ZDNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overnight Twitter had a series of high profile accounts, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian, breached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[678,129,45],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}