[ad_1] Two weeks after a massive breach saw hackers take over some of the most prominent accounts on Twitter — including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and Bill Gates — the company has published more details about how it happened. While a number of people from the “OGUsers” gray market forum provided details about […]
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Twitter sees record surge in user numbers
[ad_1] Today, Twitter announced that it earned revenues of $683 million, a 19 percent fall compared to last year, with expenses rising to $807 million. Last quarter, this deadly mix of rising costs and falling revenue meant Twitter ate a $7 million loss. Today that loss has risen to $124 million, showing that until things […]
Everything we know about the Twitter Bitcoin hack
[ad_1] Most of these accounts tweeted some variant of the same message: If someone were to send Bitcoin to the address specified in the tweets during a 30-minute window, the account owner would return double the amount. These outsized claims succeeded in tricking some people into sending over valuable cryptocurrency, but no crypto was ever […]