The plot to attack the Twitter accounts of political, cultural figures or large corporations last week began with a joking message between two hackers on Tuesday night on Discord.

A user with the account name `Kirk` shares that he has the ability to hijack famous Twitter accounts with his friends – something that can only be done when having access to this corporation’s computer system.

The hacker who received the message, who used the account name `lol`, asserted that within the next 24 hours Kirk was willing to harm the corporation because Kirk did not work for Twitter.

The incident attracted attention around the world and shook trust in Twitter as well as the security capabilities of many other corporations.

Still, four people involved in the plan spoke to The Times and shared numerous notes and screenshots of their conversations, demonstrating their involvement both before and after the attack.

The interview showed that this was not the action of a country like Russia or a complex group of hackers.

The Times confirmed these four people were involved in the attack by comparing their social media accounts and Bitcoin accounts with the accounts used in Wednesday’s attack. Who played a key role in the attack

Kirk’s true identity, the motive for the attack, or whether anyone else also received access to the system remains unknown, even to those who joined Kirk.

Hacker “lol” and another person he worked with, using the account name “ever so anxious,” told The Times they wanted to share about working with Kirk to prove they were only facilitating and accessing accounts.

“I wanted to share my story because I think my connection to ‘ever so anxious’ will be shed more light,” “lol” said in a message on Discord – where this person shared all the notes

“lol” did not reveal his true identity, only sharing that he lives on the West Coast of the United States and is about 20 years old, while “ever so anxious” is 19 years old and lives in the North of England with his mother.

Investigators of the case said the information shared by the hackers matched what had been investigated, including Kirk’s involvement in the major and minor hacks that occurred on Wednesday.

The user named Kirk did not have much of a reputation in the hacker community before the hack occurred.

“lol” and “ever so anxiuos” were previously popular on the website OGusers.com, where hackers meet and exchange valuable social media usernames, security experts said.

Kirk connected with “lol” Tuesday night and with “ever so anxious” Wednesday morning, asking if they wanted to be a go-between to sell famous Twitter accounts or accounts sought after in the online underground.

All the transactions of “lol” and “ever so anxious” happened before the whole world knew what was going on, “ever so anxious” went to sleep before the big attack was launched.

Kirk quickly escalated his efforts, switching to posting messages from famous accounts like Kanye West or technology billionaire Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon: `Send Bitcoin and your money will be

Not long after, at 6 p.m., Twitter caught up with the attack and the messages were blocked.

Twitter shared that 130 accounts were selected as targets, of which 45 accounts were accessed and tweeted.

“We are acutely aware of our responsibility to the people who use our services and to society at large,” Twitter’s blog said.

When “ever so anxious” woke up at 2:30 a.m. in the UK, realized what had happened, and sent a message expressing disappointment to “lol”.

“I’m not sad, but more upset.

According to: New York Times.