Where is the proof someone got access to the backend and not those specific accounts? Seems more likely an API client got hacked, possibly one that high profile people might use like a tweet scheduler, but not Twitter, given their threat profile and resources. That would explain why 2FA accounts were affected.
There's no proof since there's no official incident writeup yet. For now there's just Occam's razor since majority/all of those accounts will be 2fa protected.
Yes. Also, we're about an hour in now, and Musk's account just sent out another tweet after the message had been posted and deleted several times. At this point, if it was just an account compromise, someone would have reset it by now
- Apple
- Bill Gates
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos
- Joe Biden
- Barack Obama
- Michael Bloomberg
- Kanye West
- Wiz Khalifa
- Bitcoin
- Ripple
- Coinbase
- BINANCE
- CZ_Binance
- Gemini
- Kucoin
- Gate .io
- Coindesk
- Tron
- Justin Sun
- Charlee Lee
That seems like someone got full access to the backend, not the accounts per se.
Also worth mentioning that the tweets get deleted but then they get added and pinned again.