Before Twitter hack campaign, online forum offered user accounts for $2,500

For $250, the seller promised to reveal the e-mail and for $2,500, the entire account

Before a hacking campaign tore through Twitter and compromised some of its most high-profile users, an ad went up on a gray market site that facilitates the trade of user accounts for many popular websites including Twitter.

For $250 in digital currency, the seller promised they’d reveal the email linked to a Twitter account. 

And for $2,500, the buyer would get the account itself — satisfaction guaranteed.

“You will be given a full refund if for any reason you aren’t given the email/@,” the poster said, describing the Twitter account with an @ sign.

The ad, a screenshot of which was provided to Reuters