Twitter's Jack Dorsey Has Own Account Hacked 32
The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter has had his own account on the service taken over by hackers. From a report: A group referring to itself as the Chuckling Squad said it was behind the breach of Jack Dorsey's account. A spokeswoman for Twitter told the BBC that the site was urgently investigating. The account tweeted out a flurry of highly offensive and racist remarks. The offending tweets appear to have been mostly removed.
Re: Cue the circle heads.. (Score:2)
Wonders why if it really was a "hack" and not just a weak or exposed password they didn't go after @realdonaldtrump and make money in the stock market ?
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Re: Cue the circle heads.. (Score:2)
More like "Ordering US Customs to halt all China imports effective 9/1/2019. If China won't deal, we will bring back all manufacturing home. Lots of work for our veterans to do. Many people support my China Block. Let's see if Xi responds. He's a good leader for them!"
Re: Cue the circle heads.. (Score:5, Informative)
The "hack" in question wasn't a Twitter hack at all. Instead, they sim-jacked his phone number, and then texted 40404 (Twitters short-code provider), which recognized his phone number, and posted on his behalf. We should instead be discussing how easy it is to break phone networks, not Twitter itself.
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> Trump is a functionally retarded idiot but I thought at least we'd get entertainment out of the left's reaction to him
Top points awarded for meta irony.
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When was a Kardashian a billionaire, a president, or married to an enviable spouse? All they've had is the TV show.
You miss the point... you're calling him a retard with a "sort of animal cunning" and yet, he's achieved the highest success possible on multiple levels. Whether you're the type of superficial douchebag who judges a person by their spouse, or someone who judges folks but their celebrity status, or someone who judges people by their checkbook, or one who judges them by their profession... he's s
Re:Cue the circle heads.. (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd bet serious money that Trump sleeps alone every night, in a pile of fast-food and snack crumbs, after an hour of phone kisses with Hannity.
Sure he has some money, originally from Daddy, but not too sure about "Billions". In any case, Melania wouldn't be with him if he were poor. If there's a "smart one" in that family, it's Melania.
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Actually, if he had taken the money daddy gave him and stuck it in an indexed fund, he'd have more money than he does now. If not for the tendency for people to look the other way when you have bux and a name, he would have a lot less now.
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First, I'd need my daddy to give me millions of dollars.
Actually, given the number of people he's ripped off, wall street leach would be a step up.
Let's get real here, only Trump could manage to lose money on a Casino during the Atlantic City boom.
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That's something Trump haters love to say but only idiots actually repeat it because anyone with a brain knows that would only hold true if he'd taken that money and invested it without ever spending a dime of that money...
He's spent hundreds of millions, lost hundreds of millions, and still has billions to show for it even after enjoying a garishly lavish lifestyle for the last 40-50 years. But keep on repeating the buzz lines your TV tells you to repeat cause big mean orange man and all that.
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Put the cool-aid down!
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Says the guy repeating dumb shit CNN told him to think...
Learn to think for yourself.
PS - It's index fund, not indexed... and it's Kool-aid, not cool-aid.
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I don't even watch CNN. I guess that CNN crack is what you tell yourself to get you through the night.
My low opinion of Trump started forming back when he was a DINO (rather than the RINO he is today) and was the darling of CNN. I recall getting a brief giggle shortly after the bottom fell out of the junk bond market and I saw a stack of his self-aggrandizing "The Art of the Deal" at the front of a book store marked "75% off", thinking to myself, "that's about right".
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Did that sound clever in your head before you typed it?
What he is is successful, more than you'll ever be. Your brief giggles and seething hatred really have no relevance... they just expose your ignorance. He's withstood market swings that led other men off rooftops and he's the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, you're giggling in bookstores and crying on the internet, repeating inaccurate nonsense that you heard others say. By any measure, on even his worst day he's way out ahead of anywhere yo
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Sounds like someone's been triggered.
Trump has been on the way down for decades, he just has a very long way to fall thanks to his Dad's money and name.
"Hacked" (Score:1)
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Damage Done (Score:2)
The offending tweets appear to have been mostly removed.
Too late; tens of thousands have already been radicalized and the body count will be atrocious.
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But how could they tell it was hacked? (Score:2)
I mean, it's pretty much the same stuff he posts when he goes on a bender, so how did anyone notice?
Re: But how could they tell it was hacked? (Score:1)
At least it wasn't Trump's account (Score:2)
Imagine if someone hacked @realDonaldTrump and posted "I ordered a nuclear first strike against military targets in China and Russia to make America great again!".