<story><title>Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s almost as if web services that let people post whatever they want at any time, vulnerable to whatever security flaws may be present, shouldn&amp;#x27;t be used as a reliable source for up-to-the-minute information about literally anything important at all.</text></item><item><author>blisseyGo</author><text>I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.&lt;p&gt;Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of &amp;quot;Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured&amp;quot; and erased $136 billion in equity market value:&lt;p&gt;Archive: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;8lCMV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;8lCMV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;worldviews&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;syrian-hackers-claim-ap-hack-that-tipped-stock-market-by-136-billion-is-it-terrorism&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;worldviews&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;23...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies, started a war, potential for black mailing politicians and others etc.&lt;p&gt;This really needs to be looked at with much bigger eyes. This wasn&amp;#x27;t just a bitcoin scam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwd</author><text>The same could be said for radio, whether Orson Wells &amp;quot;Alien Invasion&amp;quot; broadcast or the multitude of April 1st jokes that got out of hand.</text></comment>
<story><title>Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s almost as if web services that let people post whatever they want at any time, vulnerable to whatever security flaws may be present, shouldn&amp;#x27;t be used as a reliable source for up-to-the-minute information about literally anything important at all.</text></item><item><author>blisseyGo</author><text>I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.&lt;p&gt;Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of &amp;quot;Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured&amp;quot; and erased $136 billion in equity market value:&lt;p&gt;Archive: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;8lCMV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;8lCMV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;worldviews&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;syrian-hackers-claim-ap-hack-that-tipped-stock-market-by-136-billion-is-it-terrorism&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;worldviews&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;23...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies, started a war, potential for black mailing politicians and others etc.&lt;p&gt;This really needs to be looked at with much bigger eyes. This wasn&amp;#x27;t just a bitcoin scam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djmetzle</author><text>This.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve entered a world where the lowest common denominator of information is being used as primary source for current events. That&amp;#x27;s asinine.</text></comment>