Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other high-profile Twitter account holders were the targets of a widespread hack to offer fake bitcoin deals on Wednesday


The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen, all in service of promoting a bitcoin scam that appears to be earning its creator quite a bit of money.
We don’t know how it’s happened or even to what extent Twitter’s own systems may have been compromised. The hack appears to have subsided, but new scam tweets were posting to verified accounts on a regular basis starting shortly after 4PM ET and lasting more than two hours. Twitter acknowledged the situation after more than an hour of silence, writing on its support account at 5:45PM ET, “We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly.”
 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/15/musk-gates-twitter-hack/
 https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-account-apparently-hacked-by-bitcoin-thief
 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/suspected-bitcoin-scammers
 https://yandex.com/images/search?text=Twitter
 https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/15/twitter-hacking-musk-gates-obama-kanye-bezos-bitcoin-scam/
 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/hackers-appear-to-target

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