Last Week’s Big Twitter Hack Was Years in the Making

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Brenna Smith is an open source researcher and contributor for the investigative web site Bellingcat, where she publishes a weekly newsletter about cryptocurrencies, called CryptOsint.

The great Twitter hack of 2020 (or at least so far) was a shock to everyone, most especially the social media company itself. But, it shouldn’t have been. There was a trail of signs for months leading up to the event spanning multiple social networks and other publicly available sources.

Let’s flash back to the beginning of June. Sitting on my couch mindlessly scrolling Twitter, I came across a post about a fake SpaceX Youtube account holding a livestream while also peddling an Elon Musk crypto-giveaway.
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