On late Wednesday, the Twitter accounts of some major individuals and companies have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen on Twitter, all the accounts were promoting a bitcoin scam.
Some major prominent personalities including Jeff Bezos (Founder and CEO of Amazon), Bill Gates (Co-founder of Microsoft), former US President Barack Obama were targeted by hackers on their Twitter accounts in an apparent Bitcoin scam. Twitter accounts of US Election 2020 candidates including Joe Biden, Kanye West, and Mike Bloomberg were hacked as well. Accounts of American Investor Warren Buffett, Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX), Apple Inc., Media Personality Kim Kardashian, and Uber were also hacked.
The tweet starts with, “Everyone is asking me to give back,” and different amount of money was asked it was noted that in the tweet of Bill Gates which continues, “You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.” and “All Bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled, I am only doing a maximum of $50,000,000” in the tweet of Bezos.
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter wrote after the bitcoin scam tweet that, “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible as this happened. We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what had happened.” Twitter has revealed that its own internal employee tools were compromised and used in the hack, even accounts that claimed to have a two-factor authentication were still attempting to fool followers with the bitcoin scam done by the hackers.

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