Hacking of the most powerful people in the world on Twitter - picture yet to come?

The hacking of 130 powerful people at once is unlikely to be the only common bitcoin scam behind it

The former president of America, the most powerful country in the world, is likely to be the next president in the next four months. He and other contenders for the post, not only America, but the world's top billionaires, the founders of the world's top technology companies, the world's most valuable Company ... All these and a total of 130 people or companies like them, which can be said to run almost the whole world, all their Twitter accounts were hacked at once!

At the end of this scandal that lasted for hours, what did the hackers get? One and a half million dollars!

For the same reason, the bigger question now than how this scam on Twitter became possible is whether it is really possible to hack the accounts of the most powerful people in the world on such a large scale for just one and a half million dollars. Or is the whole scandal, and the potential damage it has caused, far deeper than it is now?

Let's unravel the whole thing one by one.

What really happened?
Last week, for the first time in America's afternoon, almost identical tweets flowed from the top cryptocurrency-related accounts on Twitter (including @bitcoin), "We've joined hands with CryptoForHealth and are donating 5,000 to the Bitcoin community." There was also a link to a website (the website was blocked shortly after the news broke that Twitter had been hacked).

Then from the hacked Twitter handles, to the addresses of different bitcoin wallets, to the cryptocurrency-related accounts, to the almost identical tweets from the accounts of various experts - someone said, "We want to help the world in the situation that has arisen since Kovid-19." If there was such a thing, someone would say, "We support Bitcoin, so do you."

At the end of the tweet, giving a fixed bitcoin account number to the person donating to it was a double amount from the celebrity.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Alan Musk, Apple Company etc. are known to make massive donations for social purposes even under the most ordinary circumstances. Plus, all of these people have millions of followers on Twitter. As a result, even though the account was hacked by only 130 people, the 'appeal for donations' reverberated all over the world at once! Each had an offer to 'double the one' and it was said that this offer is only enough for the next 30 minutes!

Realizing that something was amiss, Twitter took immediate action, hacked verified accounts were blocked, false tweets flowing from it were deleted, and then after a while everything was considered as normal.

How did the hacking happen?
Twitter also offers a two-step verification method that makes any online account more secure. Apparently, all the people whose accounts have been hacked are so powerful that the people who manage their accounts have given them two-step protection.

One possibility is that SIM card swapping was also used in the hacking (in which OTP hackers get their own number by swapping a mobile company employee and swapping a certain number of SIMs). This hacking is unlikely to happen because the mobile numbers associated with the accounts of so many powerful people cannot be swapped at once. For many of these genuine people, instead of getting OTP on mobile, it is quite possible that authentication apps are considered more secure.

Now the FBI has begun investigating the entire hacking scandal. According to Twitter, direct access to celebrity accounts was obtained by firing on one of its own employees. This seems to be the most likely thing (the account of the founder of Twitter himself has also been hacked).

Trump's account was not hacked!
Of particular note was the fact that the hacked accounts did not include the name of US President Donald Trump. One reason given is that his account has been given special protection in 2017 after his Twitter account was temporarily shut down by a Twitter employee. On the other hand, many people think that the presidential election planned in just four months is the reason for this. Before the US presidential election, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal turned the minds and votes of American voters into a forcible, data-driven smart scandal, which led to the defeat of the supposedly victorious Hillary Clinton and the omnipotent Donald Trump. Russia is said to have used social media to change the outcome of the election. Is history repeating itself? With elections now being fought and won with the help of social media platforms, the weakness of such platforms is likely to worry the whole world.

Why this explosion on Twitter?
When it comes to social media, Twitter is nothing compared to giant Facebook. Facebook has 2.6 billion users, while Twitter has barely 0.33 billion users. But Facebook is mostly a platform to stay in touch with friends and relatives, while Twitter is different.

Here is a gathering of world leaders. Top people from different parts of the world have become accustomed to tweeting words on Twitter and gradually the influence of Twitter has spread tremendously on the media, stockmarkets and politics.

The president of the United States sometimes chooses to announce a new policy on Twitter. Many of the world's big news first break on Twitter. The CEOs of big companies make announcements about their business on Twitter and this has caused a lot of turmoil in the stock markets.

That's why 130 celebrity accounts are being hacked on Twitter for just-1.5 million. If the hackers had assumed that the stock markets would be in turmoil, countries like the US and Korea could have made fake tweets from the hacked accounts that were on the verge of a nuclear war.

On the other hand, Twitter has remained silent on a very important question. Private direct messaging can also take place between different accounts, just like public tweets on Twitter. It is quite possible that all these celebrities are exchanging such direct messages inside and with other important people. Have hackers got all this data? If so, we can say for sure that the real picture is yet to come on Twitter or Twitter!

Why is Twitter an easy target?
There are very few Twitter users compared to Facebook, Instagram or YouTube, but their reach is overwhelming. The world's top politicians, business tycoons, movie-sports celebrities and journalists are the most active on Twitter. If a person with millions of followers on Twitter tweets anything, it will spread all over the world again at a tremendous speed.

Because of this, hackers also get a 'kick' in hacking Twitter accounts. Hackers who have a blue tick on Twitter, that is, a verified account, hacking the accounts of 'powerful' people are looked upon with respect.

The problem with Twitter is that it exceeds its capacity!

The market value of a company like Facebook is twenty times higher than Twitter. Obviously, Twitter doesn't have as many resources as Facebook to secure its platform. Facebook has 48,000 team members worldwide, while Twitter has barely 5,100 team members worldwide.

In 2019, the founder of Twitter's own account was hacked.

A few days before this hack ...
The most commonly used technique for hacking social media accounts is called 'SIM swapping', which involves intercepting an OTP by going to the target's mobile or e-mail by breaking into a mobile phone company or social media company's employee.

A few days before the massive hacking of Twitter, a user named 'Chevon' on a platform of people known as 'Ozyusers' (i.e. original gangsters!) And engaged in account hijacking, gave an e-mail to any Twitter account for just 250 250. Posted an offer to change the mail address. He also said that he would do the job for two to three thousand dollars if he wanted direct access to any Twitter account without falling into such a trap.

On the other hand, behind this hack is said to be the hand of a user named 'Plugwalks', who is estimated to be only 21 years old!

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