It make no sense, the market was closed by the time of the attack. And they have started with bitcoin exchanges, not with the high profile accounts.

It makes potential sense in fact.

If this rocks Twitter to its foundation as a trustworthy platform, it's the end of Twitter as far as prominent figures being willing to utilize it. If Twitter loses its prominent figures edge, it's all coming down. Twitter has nothing else, it's mostly a broadcast platform for elite people in terms of where the extreme majority of all of its value is produced.

That said, that outcome is far-fetched. The content that was Tweeted appears to be far too benign to accomplish that outcome. The attackers seem to have intentionally avoided Tweeting anything particularly dangerous. If they were trying to ruin Twitter, they would have used the accounts to do something far worse, that would terrify prominent figures away from using the service.

I think they had one target in mind, to go after their DMs, and hit lots of accounts as a cover to hide which one was the primary target.

You can trade after hours but I really doubt that was the purpose.

Not enough volume so you can't blend in with /r/WSB that way

Then why not go big and hack @realDonaldTrump?

I assume each of his tweets have to be approved manually by some employees somewhere considering a hacker could start a war with his account.

Would make sense to have something like this for @jack, too — could explain why his bio was changed but he didn't tweet.

I think his bio always said #bitcoin. He owns the cash app.

Nobody want a drone over their head.

seriously, this hackers are not so imaginative.

Hacking a former president and presidential candidate.... not really that far of a jump.