Target blames Bitcoin scam tweet on third-party app, not Twitter

2018-11-15 14:12

American retail behemoth Target has come out to clarify that a tweet it posted, containing a link to a Bitcoin giveaway scam, came from a third-party software provider – not Twitter. In an email to Hard Fork, a company spokesperson said – contrary to what it suggested previously – Target’s Twitter account was never inappropriately accessed.

Rather, it appears the attackers leveraged an account owned by one of its marketing vendors to send the tweet to its audience of almost two million. . “After a thorough investigation with Twitter and our cyber security team, we’ve confirmed that an attacker accessed one…

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In what is becoming an emerging trend, Twitter accounts of popular brands are being hacked in an attempt to scam unsuspecting users out of their cryptocurrencies. Target and Google are two high profile targets that have seen their accounts taken over by hackers who, in turn, have used them to scam followers by advertising fraudulent crypto giveaways.

2018-11-15 23:40


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In the latest in a string of cryptocurrency-related hackings on Twitter, attackers have breached an official Google account to promote a Bitcoin giveaway scam to its over 800,000 followers. The official G Suite Twitter account just blasted the following message to hundreds of thousands of users: Hard Fork has yet to confirm for how long the tweet remained on G Suite’s feed, but it was no less than 11 minutes (as you can notie on the screenshot.

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Binance Freezes Funds on Multiple Accounts with Dubious Crypto Exchange

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‘OMG Hacked!’ Twitter Blocks Elon Musk After Bitcoin Tweet

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New Zealand PM Used As Pawn In Fake News Site

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2018-10-12 16:30


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Anonymous Twitter User Says They’ll Livestream a 51 Percent Altcoin Attack

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Tron’s GoSeedit TRX Coin Tipping Bot for Twitter and Telegram Hits 18 Million, a Record High

GoSeedit Marks a New Record; 18 Million TRX Tipped The Tron (TRX) network continues to expand with different platforms that are working with this project. In a tweet uploaded by GoSeedIt on September 13, the company announced that they have surpassed 18 million TRX tipped with over 265k tips. It's #TipThursday here at #Seedit Featured […]

2018-9-17 12:57


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John McAfee’s “Unhackable” Bitcoin Wallet Is Actually Hackable

The supposedly “unhackable” cold storage Bitcoin wallet had to be hacked twice before the company decided to admit defeat in an August 30, 2018, tweet.   Not Unhackable Anymore In an announcement made on Twitter, Bitfi, the company that manufactures hardware crypto wallets, said it will be removing the “unhackable” claim from their website effective immediately.

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