I'm torn between "This really is the easiest way to make a lot of money fast and disappear with no loose ends" vs "This must have been misdirection"https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1283588550638727168 …
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So there's a strict time limit on doing whatever you were gonna do with your access, especially given that they were targeting people who were famous and connected Spying on their DMs for a month wasn't an option
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The Bitcoin scam really is the easiest way to just grab a lot of money off of this and disappear without leaving traces You could've made more by putting a big short on Amazon and having Jeff Bezos announce his retirement but it would've been way way riskier
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The way I see it - you're going to get caught within a day after the first time you do this and the exploit will be patched So when you do it, you might as well blow your cover in a way that makes you a lot of money at once, hence the Bitcoin scam
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Other, subtler stuff, like trawling through everyone's archived DMs for blackmail material, will have to be saved for later I think we probably can expect some fallout in months to come
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