The media learned who was behind the burglary Twitter
The recent attack on Twitter was a group of young men from the US and the UK, which communicated with each other in the messenger and the shell which was led by one nick Kirk, who claimed that working in the social network and has internal access to users ' accounts, writes the print edition the new York times referring to have been involved in the hacking of hackers and their publishing screenshots of the conversations in the messenger.
As reported by the NYT, they managed to Contact with four members of hacking them among users under nicknames Lol and ever so anxious. To contact the hackers edition helped the specialist in the field of security from California Haseeb Awan. Avan said that he maintained contact with the hackers, because they first tried to hack it owned the company.
According to the participants, communication between hackers was carried out in the instant messenger arena. In the center of the whole scheme was User Kirk. He brought funds from the purse, where scammers have been asked to transfer bitcoins, informs journal citing its own analysis of remittances in bitcoin.
The user Lol told with the publication of screenshots correspondence with the user under the name Kirk in which Kirk argued that working in Twitter, for this reason he has access to accounts of users of the social network." Bro, I work at Twitter, don't show anyone this letter seriously, " wrote User Kirk.
It is noted that the User of the Kirk were not widely known in the hacker community before the attack last Wednesday. His profile in the shell was only created on 7 July. Even other hackers who worked with him, His identity remained unknown.
Participants hacking " met " before the beginning of the operation. Kirk contacted Lol Tuesday night and Wednesday - with the ever so anxious in the shell, where the initiative has made them to become dealers to sell Twitter accounts on the Internet, informs magazine. Lol and ever so anxious already had the reputation on the Internet representation OGusers. Com, where hackers sell "valuable" names in social networks, to steal from users. Often such names, @dark, @w, @l, @50 others, which resulted in the form of an example printed edition, - consist of a single digit or letter, and thereby attract the attention, which makes them very valuable, stresses the magazine.
for each implemented transaction Lol and ever so anxious relied its share, writes the print edition. These operations have shown how wide the access Kirk has to systems Twitter: he can quickly change the basic safety features for any user and send a photo of the records of the internal systems of Twitter in the form of a confirmation that he is in control of the account.
One of the buyers that have acquired the name @6 - the famous hacker PlugWalkJoe, which hides a 21-year-old Briton, Joseph O'connor, told the publication that, According to other hackers, Kirk got the right access to systems and servers Twitter when I could get into the channel organization in the corporate Slack messenger." citizens investigating the case, said, because this corresponds to the fact that they now got to know, " writes the magazine.
According to those with whom managed to communicate the newspaper, about 22. 30 GMT environment Kirk moved on to hacking the accounts of famous people - former President Barack Obama, entrepreneur Elon musk and other. The assurances Lol, with the crack accounts of celebrities were only Kirk. Later he stopped answering its intermediaries.
Lol though not revealed his identity, however, told the publication that lives in USA and he is about 20, and His friend with the nickname ever so anxious told that he was 19 years old, he lives in the UK with my mother.
Who is behind nick Kirk, as well as Its underlying causes install did not work, says the magazine.
the print edition said that investigators leading the case of the hacking, confirmed that certain details shared by hackers with the publication coincides with the fact that as long as were able to set the result of the investigation.
first unidentified broke into the accounts of several U.S. celebrities. The number of received damage from the burglary were former Vice-President of the USA Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, the Founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk, billionaires bill gates, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett, the head of Amazon Jeff Bezos, rapper Kanye West, organizations like Apple, Uber and others. The authors in the hacked accounts, promised to return sent to them for 30 minutes bitcoins in doubling the size.
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