Twitter - Double your bitcoins
Date: 2020-07-15
Method: phone spear phishing, the attacker managed to get hold of internal tool that reset user account.
Impact: 130 high profile accounts were pwned
Attacker: 2 teenagers from Florida + 1 teenager from UK.
Noteworthy: Twitter is one of the most important social network, and yet they were hacked by teenagers, this proof that as long as someone is determined to break, there is nothing that is absolutely secure.
Apparently the hack started on 3rd May, 2020, when Graham Ivan Clark gained access to a portion of Twitter’s network.
In total the attacker received 12.83 bitcon ~ $117,000 before Coinbase blocked transactions to the scam addresses,preventing another $280,000 from being sent to the scammers.
References
Twitter update on security incident
ZDnet: How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers