The creator of cURL reassured The Reg on Tuesday that he's not a billionaire rocket man giving away Bitcoins, no matter what his Twitter account claimed.
Daniel Stenberg, who maintains the widely used Swiss army-knife of network data transfer tools, had his verified Twitter account hijacked by person or persons unknown, its name and avatar was changed to that of Elon Musk's, and it was used to peddle a Bitcoin scam.
Speaking to El Reg shortly before he finally managed to convince Twitter to give him back control of his profile, Stenberg said he was “pretty confident” that none of his cURL work has been compromised or had malicious code sneaked into it. The hack appears very similar to a widespread one earlier this year in which Musk’s Twitter account was commandeered to con marks into handing over their stocks of the cryptocurrency in exchan ..
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