News Forum - Hackers target Twitter account of Thai Revenue Department

[Thaiger]

The government has advised netizens to be cautious after the Revenue Department’s Twitter account was hacked by unknown attackers. According to a Thai PBS World report, the hackers deleted nearly all previous tweets on the account and changed its name to Revenue/NFT. They then posted just one tweet, which read, “I’m looking to collaborate with NFT projects. DM (direct message) me if you’re interested in paid promotion!” It’s not yet known who was behind the attack but NFT stands for non-fungible token in the world of crypto currencies. The attack comes as the Thai government confirms new tax measures targeting […]

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[diegogg]

It turns out the account was susceptible to brute force attack, the password was: whereisfarangnohavemoney

[Poolie]

14 minutes ago, diegogg said:

It turns out the account was susceptible to brute force attack, the password was: whereisfarangnohavemoney

Your money is a drop in the ocean. All farangs that is. Sorry.

[Fanta]

1 hour ago, Poolie said:

Your money is a drop in the ocean. All farangs that is. Sorry.

 

Seems like a rather large part of the pond… 2019 - 18 trillion baht GDP including 3 trillion from tourism aka 16%… 

Characteristic	Value of tourism's GDP in billion Thai baht
2017	2,779.98
2018	2,942.41
2019	3,076.99
2020*	1,064.39

 

Source - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1143427/thailand-value-of-tourism-gdp/

New password is TATmissyou2much

Edited January 17, 2022 by Fanta
Added new password

[Poolie]

And yet here we are after two years of little or no tourist income and the difference is slight?

[Fanta]

1 hour ago, Poolie said:

And yet here we are after two years of little or no tourist income and the difference is slight?

Maybe ask the 2,500,000 people directly employed by the tourism industry in 2019 that question, if you can find them because the majority are no longer at work. Or maybe the other millions of people indirectly affected by the absence of 2 trillion baht a year from tourism. Or anyone on the streets.

[Poolie]

Re-employed, different jobs.

[Rain]

2 hours ago, Poolie said:

And yet here we are after two years of little or no tourist income and the difference is slight?

Revised password: makebelievetourismeconomygdpnumbers