The online world is vulnerable, very vulnerable. The most powerful American Twitter accounts were hacked. These people include Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and many more in it. It was a bad day for the online world.
The account also includes Joe Biden, Apple’s official account, Warren Buffet, Kanye West. However, the list does not end here. All of these compromised accounts were tweeting about the Bitcoin.
The scam posted tweets on behalf of the accounts hacked. It stated a Bitcoin wallet address along with the promise of sending back double the amount of BTC if a user sends a certain amount to the designated wallet first.
NEW: Hackers take over Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and many more. pic.twitter.com/UGXEkYunHb
— Norbert Elekes (@NorbertElekes) July 15, 2020
Twitter head Jack and Twitter support tweeted about the issue. Jack said tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. While the support said we are investigating and looking to fix it.
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.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 15, 2020
Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.
We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.
💙 to our teammates working hard to make this right.
— jack (@jack) July 16, 2020
This shows that social media giants could be more vulnerable than ever before.
All Billionaires to hacker: Who are you?
Hacker: I am a Trillionaire. #Hacked pic.twitter.com/WyHRBH1ocj— Uman Malik (@U_3322) July 16, 2020
WE ALL KNOW WHO #HACKED TWITTER @mega64 pic.twitter.com/Qd6c2lCnpa
— Mark Couchenour (@MarkCouchenour) July 16, 2020
