Biggest Twitter Hack Updates Accounts like,Jeff Bezor, Kim Kardashian, Elon Musk and other accounts
After high-profile Twitter accounts of personalities like kim kardashian, Barak Obama, Kanye West, Bill Gates, milk Bloomberg, Jeff Bezor and others got hacked in Bitcoin scam, CEO jack Dorsey said, "We all feel terrible this happened", after got hacked on Wednesday 6th July 2020, This came to light where fake tweets offering to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to bitcoin address were made thought these accounts. Not only this, but the scam appeared to have happened in two rounds after the same Bitcoin-scamming tweets were made for the second time from the officials accounts of Bill Gates and Elon Musk after their first tweets were deleted. Twitter Support announced on Wednesday evening that its team was investigation and wrote " 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 biggest hack update
Justin sun, Tron founder and CEO of BitTorrent has announced a sum of $1 million. BitTorrent's official Twitter account tweeted, "Tron Founder and CEO of @BitTorrent Justin Sun is putting out a Bounty for the hackers in the amount of $1 million. He will personally pay those who successfully track down and provide evidence for bringing to justice, The hacker/ people behind this hack affecting our community."
A massive Hack - described as a coordinated social engineering attack by Twitter targeted multiple high profiles users last night including EX- US-President Barack Obama, and many Business Tycoons.
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,"
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 user's profiles.
A tweet that appeared on Elon Musk's feed read: "Happy Wednesday! i'am giving back Bitcoin to all 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.
In a series of posts, the micro-blogging sites later said that most accounts- that were targeted should be able to tweet again.
"We detected what we believe to be coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal system and tools." one of the posts read.
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 attackers believed to have been loyal to Turkish President Recap Tayyip Erdogan.
Last August a series of insulting or racist messages were posted on the personal account of Twitter founder Dorsey without his Knowledge.
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