蘭鳩 @Ranbato@fedibird.com

BREAKING - an apparently credible threat actor is claiming they have the data of 400,000,000 Twitter users and attempting to sell it

The database is private according to them, and contains devastating amounts of information including emails and phone numbers to high profile users.

The threat actor provided a sample of 1,000 notable accounts and included the private information of - AOC, Brian Krebs, Vitalik Buterin, Kevin O'Leary, Donald Trump JR, and many more.

They claim this data was obtained in early 2022 due to an exploit in Twitter and in their post they talk directly to Elon Musk asking him to buy the data to avoid GDPR lawsuits.

Please note - At this stage it is not possible to fully verify that there are indeed 400,000,000 users in the database, or that it indeed came directly from Twitter. In an independent verification the data itself appears to be legitimate and I will follow up on any developments.

FTX's founder being arrested for fraud, Elon losing billions and being the butt of every joke, Trump being investigated for multiple criminal charges, and amazon losing billions in stock.

We're so close to real consequences, it's like Christmas! Actually it is.

#twitter #ftx #trump #amazon

The explosion in growth for Mastodon, including among mainstream, non-tech users, is genuinely exciting. That an open-source, interoperable, nonprofit-driven protocol could reach this kind of success is incredible. The future looks bright ❤️

Too much social media news today - but final one is this. What a complete shitshow... - Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors, and then deletes new policy https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/18/23515221/twitter-bans-links-instagram-mastodon-competitors

Looks like the WSJ is going all in on moving to Mastodon, with this little tutorial available without a paywall.
https://www.wsj.com/story/how-to-use-mastodon-the-social-media-platform-blocked-by-elon-musks-twitter-7751455f

A front page article on the Washington Post telling people how to get started with Mastodon?

That’s a big deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/17/how-to-join-mastodon/

Imagine, if you will, a long-time heavy smoker's laugh. That's me, right now, even though I have never smoked even once in my life. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tesla-3rd-largest-shareholder-demands-203101215.html

Imagine choosing to still advertise there tomorrow

Get ready to welcome more people tonight. I have a feeling more peeps are making the jump to Mastodon this evening. Just a hunch.

And a lot of this is what these market makers do—they “provide liquidity,” but in practice, it’s just wash trading. But here’s the hard part: You can’t prove it’s wash trading without the exchange’s internal records. So I’m stuck just showing that, well, all these people that are supposedly buying this thing just end up sending it right back to the exchange. So what’s actually going on?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/cryptocurrency-ftx-collapse-dirty-bubble-media/672440/

#crypto
#ftx
#alameda
#fraud
#investing

Elon Musk continues to use his platform on Twitter to spread dangerous rightwing disinformation, most recently taking a swipe both at the trans community and Dr. Fauci.

In response, Dr. Fauci clapped back with a brutally accurate description of Musk's Twitter.

Definitely worth a watch.

https://www.comicsands.com/fauci-response-musk-twitter-description-2658958592.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

My suggestion if you want the Fediverse to work, follow and favorite and boost the absolute hell out of people. It’s not about dopamine or clout chasing, it’s about letting people know they’re not just typing into a void.

That time of year where you re-implement Djisktra in native python… Slow, but will do the job.
#adventofcode

(if this wasn't a busy workday, I'd have loved to dust off a proper hill-climbing search algo in Python)