Here’s how SIM swap in alleged bitcoin pump-and-dump scheme worked
Here’s how SIM swap in alleged bitcoin pump-and-dump scheme worked
False information posted to official SEC account caused spike in the currency.
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Idiot. Why did they not run those searches over the tor network to anonymize themselves? That is quite frankly stupid. And the fact that the SEC was using SMS-based two-factor authentication is also stupid. One time pads or bust motherfuckers.
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2 1 ReplyWell then again, you expect government agencies to be secure? Yeah, not hardly.
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Oh my god, someone please tell me about understanding of the following facts are wrong:
They did all of that, compromised a SEC employee and the official SEC Twitter account, to move the price of Bitcoin only around 2.2%.
They could have just put sell orders in, and waited a month.
Here's the hourly BTC high and low prices for the day in question, Jan. 9th., 2024
All that risk, just to bump the price up $1,000, when it was already trading between $45-47k.
That is so dumb, so painfully dumb, that I almost feel bad about laughing my ass off about this. JFC.
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