2020-7-17 20:35 |
A ton of blue check twitter accounts got hacked to promote bitcoin-related scams. Hijacked accounts claimed that they were going to give people bitcoin or double their stash after they sent some to an address first. origin »
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Coinspeaker Twitter to Block Links to Other Social Media Accounts Last week, Elon Musk also engaged in a rift with journalists. The platform banned a number of accounts belonging to journalists from major publications like the Washington Post and CNN.
2022-12-19 15:04 | |
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An investigation by the New York State Department of Financial Services has revealed how the great Twitter hack in July happened. A total of 130 high-profile, celebrity accounts were compromised and many were used to tweet about a bitcoin giveaway scam.
2020-10-26 22:15 | |
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Twitter has released an update following last week's hack, which saw over 100 accounts compromised. The social media giant confirmed on July 22 that the hackers accessed the direct messages of some of these exposed accounts.
2020-7-24 21:30 | |
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On Wednesday, a large number of Twitter accounts were compromised and the hackers used the accounts to tweet about a bitcoin doubling scam. According to multiple reports, a Twitter employee was paid to give the hackers an internal tool that let them leverage high-profile social media accounts.
2020-7-17 02:05 | |
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Hackers were allegedly able to hijack some VIP Twitter accounts by bribing one of the company's employees
2020-7-16 09:16 | |
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The Twitter accounts for a large number of famous influencers have been hacked, offering a run-of-the-mill Bitcoin scam. The hacks appear to be related to a hacked posting service. It seems like some Twitter API posting service has been compromised and being used to send out fake "giveaway" tweets from popular crypto/blockchain accounts.
2020-7-16 23:57 | |
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According to reports the social media platform Twitter has been deleting millions of fraudulent accounts per day, and stated during the first week of July that it suspended more than 70 million accounts throughout May and June.
2018-7-17 00:55 | |
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Twitter today announced it’d be removing locked accounts from users’ follower counts. If you’ve noticed a precipitous drop in follower counts today, it’s not you — it’s your followers. Reports surfaced earlier this week that Twitter had suspended a multitude of fake accounts in the months of May and June — apparently in an attempt to curb the rise of bot and their accompanying cocktail of issues.
2018-7-12 02:47 | |
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Musk has expressed some curiousness over the mad skills of Ethereum scam bots creator, while Vitalik Buterin asked Jack Dorsey to solve this issue. In one of the recent trends, cryptocurrency scam bots have been targeting accounts of high-profile individuals outside the crypto community.
2018-7-11 13:10 | |
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Elon Musk has called out Twitter scam bots that impersonate famous people’s accounts to steal crypto from unsuspecting users
2018-7-11 00:02 | |
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Today, James Tennant of Converge has published an article that discusses his top six Twitter accounts for cryptocurrency expertise and fantasy. You can see the full article for yourself, here. This got us thinking.
2018-7-10 16:00 | |
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Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bancor confirmed in a Twitter post this morning that the platform’s security was breached by hackers. Following the attack, Bancor shut down its site for maintenance and froze its accounts.
2018-7-10 23:45 | |
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For the past several years, Twitter has been the platform most used by Kim Dotcom to get his messages out to the public. Whenever there’s been a development in his long-running case, Twitter is usually the first place to find up-to-date information.
2018-7-8 08:47 | |
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Tweet of the Day When you see a bunch of big crypto twitter accounts all telling you to buy the same coin you about to get dumped on bruh – @crypto_beak More slow-mo, less FOMO Top Cryptos By Market Cap BITCOIN (BTC) | -1.
2018-7-7 18:07 | |
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Daniel Larmier, the founder and technical architect of EOS, has confirmed that he wants to scrap the platform’s current constitution and build a new one. Speaking on the EOSIO Gov Telegram Channel, Larimer claimed he has doubts about the company’s current on-chain governance model and called the existing constitution “unwise.
2018-6-28 01:44 | |
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Sometimes, these scams are easy to snuff out, especially if the individual being mimicked is verified by Twitter. But Twitter doesn’t verify everyone, especially not in an industry still so niche as crypto.
2018-6-26 00:28 | |
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The China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID) released the second iteration of its monthly Global Public Chain Technology Evaluation Index. As part of the Ministry of Industry and Technology Information, the CCID is releasing the monthly reports on behalf of the Chinese government.
2018-6-25 21:23 | |
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Taylor Monahan, who was the co-founder of MyEtherWallet (MEW) and is the founder of MyCrypto, recently, responded to BitcoinFoundation. org founder Charlie Shrem’s concerns over EOS’s overwhelming centralization.
2018-6-22 00:46 | |
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The EOS Block Producers’ decision to protect users’ funds from theft by freezing seven accounts has crypto Twitter questioning EOS’ decentralized system
2018-6-20 17:47 | |
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]In a fresh new twist, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has admitted to issuing its ban on cryptocurrency-related accounts spontaneously, without taking time to study and understand how cryptocurrencies work.
2018-6-13 23:40 | |
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News Fake ether token giveaways are clogging Twitter threads, and seemingly by the second. And Twitter seems to be either doing nothing about it or is just plain impotent. She soon came up against what more and more Twitter users are facing: fairly elaborate ether (ETH) come-ons, fake giveaways using mirror’d accounts. In utter exasperation,
2018-6-12 16:19 | |
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Fake ether token giveaways are clogging Twitter threads, and seemingly by the second. Targeting well-known ecosystem figures, doppelganger accounts are created, complete with matching avatars. A particularly active post can almost assuredly be counted on to receive seemingly organic calls for participation in free crypto programs hosted by the respective personality.
2018-6-12 14:15 | |
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Metaplanet is going all in on BTC again — this time with a $13 million war chest. The Japanese Bitcoin treasury company has issued 2 billion Japanese yen ($13. 3 million) in zero-interest bonds to continue expanding its BTC reserves.
U. S. President Donald Trump delivered video remarks to the Digital Asset Summit conference in New York on Thursday. He doubled down on his pro-crypto view and promised to make the United States the “undisputed Bitcoin superpower and crypto capital of the world.
