“i just kinda found it cool having a username that other people would want,” “ever so anxious” said in a chat with The Times.

They could have started a nuclear war and put the world out of its misery, instead they do this. Fucking zoomers man.

Just when I thought Millennials were the most useless generation possible.

most useless generation possible.

Why not still holding title🤔

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Definitely not useless at making money they didn't earn. Sounds like their are better at it than walstreet.

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He could've been doing this with the intent to sell them. Some people are really into the whole rare username thing.

Shit, back in the day when I played runesape I had people offering me thousands of dollars for my username, and that's just a fucking game.

I imagine there are a lot of blue checks that would pay insane amounts for certain names.

Damn, what was your RS username? I’m in the same boat, someone has offered me 5 grand for my username recently

Unless hes a scammer, you're literally r slurred if you dont take that offer.

Agreed. Everybody is a scammer these days tho and there’s no official market for this sorta thing

LEGALIZE SELLING REDDIT ACCOUNTS

DragonSlayer843

DragonSlayer843

False and not CIS Heteronormative.

tbh that account's been hacked a few times and they were able to get my email through it so I'm all paranoid about giving the name out now and having it linked back to all the r-slurred shit i've said here

wouldn't want some AHS super soldier to show up at my 7 month old nephew's house and kidnap him because his uncle is a drama nazi

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Fake n gay

There’s an episode of Reply All called Snapchat Thief that goes into this. Very good episode, one of my favorites.

Imagine being the team who discovered this exploit and spent years carefully crafting the maximum possible impact, only for some zoomer to blow your scheme wide open with a shitcoin scam

The interviews indicate that the attack was not the work of a single country like Russia or a sophisticated group of hackers. Instead, it was done by a group of young people — one of whom says he lives at home with his mother — who got to know one another because of their obsession with owning early or unusual screen names, particularly one letter or number, like @y or @6.

priors confirmed

like Russia

The US press gearing up like they never left the cold war

Yeah, it really sucks. Why can't they just move on from the past like the Russians have?

Yeah!!!!!

I thought for sure a BTC scam that netted 100k was a sophisticated FSB op.

Remember how smug the media along with dems were a few years ago when Romney talked about Russia still being an enemy?

Fast forward a few years and now the dems and media can't stop mentioning russia every time anything happens.

Please Clap.

No Really, him or !. What kind of world would Arrr Dram be if either milk breads actually won?

Not really

8 years ago mate

can't blame them, war is great for selling papers

Wait, so this wasn’t even a hack? A Twitter employee was selling inactive accounts with unique handles to zoomers and then just chose to do this bitcoin scam?

Silicon Valley-cels are truly the lowest organisms on our planet.

Did I misread it. I thought this is how they got in:

Mr. O'Connor said other hackers had informed him that Kirk got access to the Twitter credentials when he found a way into Twitter’s internal Slack messaging channel and saw them posted there, along with a service that gave him access to the company’s servers. People investigating the case said that was consistent with what they had learned so far. A Twitter spokesman declined to comment, citing the active investigation.

I don't know if that means it was a Twitter employee?

Sounds more like the kid got into the Slack channel, chatted up an admin by pretending to someone else and then asked for their login details for the admin tools.

Are you suggesting jannies have value 🤮

when he found a way into Twitter’s internal Slack messaging channel and saw them posted there

Looks like some Twitter coders better learn to journalism now

If you haven't noticed yet, this generation's scene are a bunch of disappointments.

Which is to be expected as this whole generation has been a disappointment.

I'm kinda confused by the whole thing: why is everyone except the actual hacker, Kirk, in the picture at all? Why are these "anxious" and "lol" called his middlemen, what are they in the middle of?

They were selling access to people. I can't remember what forum, but they were selling account access for like $1500 depending on the username.

I can't remember what forum

It was on OGUsers.

Ahhh yes! Thank you 🙂

Smh if a boomer had done it they'd have started a proper race war or some shit but we got these kids dicking around their damn game cube live names😤

Imagine being a hacker and not doing any bitcoin shit

Lmao.

the attackers had targeted 130 accounts, gaining access and tweeting from 45 of that set. They were able to download data from eight of the accounts

downloaded data from eight accounts

Good news boys, looks like this might not be over yet

According to Twitter none of these eight accounts were verified. So it will be only pleb drama.

This is the biggest letdown of the year, possibly the decade.

HAHA BETHANY HAS TOTALLY BEEN DM'ING SCOTT I KNEW IT HAHAHA

Imagine bill gates asking for foot pics from cardi b

They had the power to make every blue check tweet the n word but decided to try to get meme currency. It's over for dramacoin

Thats about as effective as doing it yourself with inspect element and screenshotting it. Nobody puts any stock into these hacks

Where is your bot? You post a nyt article and there are no archive links.

I typed in archive.vn/ before it and that worked for me.

If I wanted to type it in manually I'd just do that and not bitch about it. Nice link btw. You're worse than the nonexistent bot.

It's not my job to do your emotional labor for you, sweaty. 💅

its ny times, you just have to F5 the page and then cancel and your good to go

F5

I am proud to say that in the 5 years I have been on reddit I have never, ever, not one fucking time ever opened it up on an actual computer.

Besides, I know how to do it. I'm just asking about Snappy because it's pretty much the best thing about this ever-devolving website so I wanted to see how long it is banned for and if anyone would know, it's OP

imagine not being able to disable css

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Called it

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So it was the Russians is what you're saying