Hackers siege Troye Sivan’s Twitter, promising album and hocking cryptocurrency
Sivan became an early victim of Elon Musk's legacy check mark purge after hackers accessed his account and fired off a tweet advertising a fake cryptocurrency
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Since the brave new world of Twitter Blue has done nothing but cripple the already-unstable state of veracity online, it’s time for some fact-checking: yes, Troye Sivan has a new album coming out, but no, he is not affiliated with or touting a new cryptocurrency called $TROYE.
On Tuesday, Sivan apparently became an early victim of Elon Musk’s legacy verification purge, which also involved the rescindment of two-factor authentication for any users not subscribed to Twitter Blue. After hackers gained access to Sivan’s no-longer-verified Twitter, the account fired off a since-deleted tweet excitedly promising the imminent release of Sivan’s third album before pivoting to a different kind of all-too-familiar online promotion: hocking the benefits of cryptocurrency. The tweet promised anyone holding $TROYE tokens, first access to the album, and invited readers to claim $TROYE via a link to troyesivan.com.
There is, as it happens, actually no such thing as $TROYE, which Sivan himself elucidated in a series of Instagram stories responding to the hack. In fact, the tweet was published less than a month after Sivan deactivated his account (making it even more likely that the hackers were able to access the handle through a backdoor unlocked by the removal of two-factor authentication).
“I deleted my Twitter so whoever has the account now is not meeeeee they are scammers,” Sivan shared. “We’re gonna get it deleted hopefully but Twitter is a hell scape… This is not the rise of crypto Troye.”
Before the hackers attempted to repurpose his rollout for a crypto gag, Sivan had begun promoting his next album the old-fashioned way: dressed in head-to-toe Saint Laurent for a prestige magazine feature. Speaking with Elle’s Véronique Hyland on Monday, The Idol star revealed his new album—heavily inspired by post-lockdown clubbing experiences at home in Australia—has left him “the most proud I’ve ever been of anything I’ve done.”
“I think what I feel comfortable saying is that it’s full of hope, which I didn’t know it was going to be when I first started making it,” Sivan shares. There it is, straight from the source: the new Troye Sivan album runs on optimism and Down Under fun, not $TROYE.
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Hocking or hawking?
Meanings are meaningless, grammar is gone, language is chaos, embrace it baby!
Neither.It’s “hocking” if they sold it to a pawnbroker, and it’s “Hawking” if it’s a quadriplegic scientist but if that’s not either of those then it’s, I guess, the tarsal joint or region in the hind limb of a digitigrade quadruped (such as the horse) corresponding to the human ankle but elevated and bending backward?
“Hackers siege Troye Sivan’s Twitter”No, they didn’t, because you can’t “siege” something. Siege is a noun that means a military blockade, or it’s a transitive verb, as in “to lay siege to” something.
But you simply CANNOT “siege Troye Sivan’s Twitter”, no matter how much you or anyone might want to “siege” it.
For fuck’s sake…
which also involved the rescindment of two-factor authentication for any users not subscribed to Twitter Blue.Musk has made a staggering number of mistakes since taking over Twitter, but he only rescinded the text message method of 2FA for non-Blue users; it’s still possible to use a security key or an authentication app for 2FA without shilling out the $8/month. This is explained in the very document linked in the quoted passage, where they also claim to be taking this step because SMS-based 2FA is less secure, which, incidentally, is true.There’s certainly room to criticize the way in which Twitter has implemented its discontinuation of text message 2FA for non-Blue users, but I think spreading the message of “Twitter is now a hopelessly insecure hellscape that’s easy pickings for hackers” is less helpful than “Twitter no longer allows text message 2FA for non-Blue accounts, but subscriber or not you ought to switch to one of the other methods ASAP.”
His head & neck look too big for his body.
Well he does have marfan syndrome.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen “siege” used as a verb. Usually, it’s “besiege”. Or was that supposed to be “seize”?
Obligatory …who??