On hackng of twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, “Tough Day For Us At Twitter”: Jack Dorsey
Massive twitter accounts hacking
In an extraordinary measure, Twitter disabled thevalidated accounts from posting tweetsfor about two hours after scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin hijacked the users’ profiles.
Hackers turned their eyes on IT giants, politicians, businessmen and major companies such as former US President Barack Obama, Amazon CEO Jeff Bozos, billionaire businessman Elon Musk, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. His Twitter account was hacked. This is clearly being considered as a bitcoin scam.
His Twitter count tweeted a fake sending of $ 2,000 for every $ 1000. Bezos, Gates and Musk are among the 10 richest people in the world, with millions of followers on Twitter.
Hackers tweeted from Bill Gates’s account and wrote, ‘People have been asking me to contribute to society. The time has now come. You give me 1000 dollars, I will give you 2000 dollars instead. ‘ In the name of the Corona epidemic, a similar tweet was made from Barack Obama’s Twitter account.
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Twitter came into action after the world veterans’ Twitter account was hacked. The company issued a statement saying that it was a cautionary incident about a “security incident affecting the Twitter account”. It is being investigated and work is being done to fix it. Twitter also promised to fix it soon.
Let us know that the tweets from these accounts got deleted in a few minutes. All tweets on Twitter will not be able to tweet any type of account and passwords will not be reset. Twitter said that the matter is being investigated and information related to it will be given soon.
“Tough Day For Us At Twitter”: Jack Dorsey
A massive hack – described as “a coordinated social engineering attack” by Twitter – targeted multiple high-profile users last night including ex-US President Barack Obama, Tesla’s Elon Musk, investor Warren Buffet and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded to the attack this morning, saying it was a “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,” Mr Dorsey tweeted.
In an extraordinary measure, Twitter disabled the validated accounts from posting tweets for about two hours after scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin hijacked the users’ profiles.
A tweet that appeared on Elon Musk’s feed read: “Happy Wednesday! I am giving back Bitcoin to all of my followers. I am doubling all payments sent to the Bitcoin address below. You send 0.1 BTC, I send 0.2 BTC back!” The offer was valid “only for 30 minutes”.
“This is a SCAM, DO NOT participate!” Gemini cryptocurrency exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss warned from his official account on Twitter.
In a series of posts, the microblogging site later said that most accounts – that were targeted – “should be able to tweet again”.
“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools,” one of the posts read.
Among other high profile accounts that were affected were those of rapper Kanye West, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and the corporate accounts for Uber and Apple.
Several accounts of cryptocurrency-focused organizations were also hijacked. Altogether, the affected accounts had tens of millions of users.
This is not the first time that Twitter has reported a massive hack. In March 2017, the accounts of Amnesty International, the French economics ministry and the BBC’s North America service were broken into by hackers believed to have been loyal to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Last August, a series of insulting or racist messages were posted on the personal account of Twitter founder Dorsey without his knowledge.
