Exactly, I felt that too. Why would someone risk their life for $100k. Especially if they can hack twitter. Because people of their caliber can make a lot more.
I have one more theory though. I have seen a couple of posts/interviews about people running the scam ethereum bots on twitter. And these people make around $3000-$5000 a month(during bull market of 2017).
So, it could be possible that they were the exact same people, thought that if they can get access to famous personalities, they can score a big amount. Probably $1m something.
But they over-expected things and end up in loss.
I mean nobody would have expected that people would send them $130k or something. Right?
Even that's a big amount. So, they might have expected to make a big score out of it. They just didn't planned it right. They could have made a fake ICO page, and hyped up through all those profile. More people would have believed it I think.
Anyway, it's a mystery unless someone solves it. And I feel the way this event is losing its hype and didn't affected the price of bitcoin much, I think not much progress will be there further.
At some point we will probably find out exactly what happened, but I do think there is a decent change it is a bit more complex than the initial reports.
I read a couple of reports after I commented. There was an underground group of hackers, using sim swapping tricks. They hacked Jack Dorsey's account some time ago.
So, they got credentials of some key employees of twitter. Shared the loopholes of system among several hacker groups and a couple of them coordinated this hack.
Sounds interesting to me. We will find out more in a few days I guess.