[lyx0]

The thing I'm most concerned about is that if Brian Krebs is right and they had access to their DM's, that the very obvious crypto scam they ran was just a facade, some kind of distraction because they knew they would have been noticed, but the true goal were the DM's.

Imagine a celebrity saying some 'not so politically correct' things to a friend in private 8 years ago, and now imagine this becoming public while the Twitter cancel culture is in full force. There's a lot of money and power in having that information.

I don't want to argue about what's wrong or not, I just want to point out what I find really concerning about the hack.

[donkeyd]

Why are you so concerned about some celebs being called out on stuff they said? To me, the most concerning is innocent people having lost money to a scammer, not some celebrity's public image being hurt by something they actually wrote.

[chki]

I think the point was that a malicious actor might have power (via blackmail) over a famous/powerful person.