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SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 — The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked yesterday by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin, in a massive hack of the social media platform. The list of accounts commandeered simultaneously grew...

The Twitter logo is shown at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco April 28, 2015. — Reuters pic

The list of accounts commandeered simultaneously grew rapidly to include Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Uber, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, bitcoin specialty firms and many others. “This is a SCAM, DO NOT participate!” Gemini cryptocurrency exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss warned in a tweet from his official account at Twitter.

Comments and posts at Twitter indicated thousands of dollars in bitcoin may have been sent to the scammers' digital account.“Given the accounts that got hacked more recently , I am now leaning towards this being an internal compromise of a Twitter system, not an API attack from a social aggregator service,” bitcoin authority and author Andreas Antonopoulos said in a tweet from his @aantonop account.“All major crypto Twitter accounts have been compromised,” Winklevoss warned in a tweet.

 

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