High-profile tech and money tycoons, celebrities, as well as a presidential candidate and a former president were hacked Wednesday on Twitter in what appears to be one of the largest digital security scams to have hit the internet.
""We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter," said Twitter in a statement."We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly." Some of the accounts – that of cybercurrency investor Tyler Winklevoss, for example – have confirmed"they were using multi-factor authentication and got hacked anyway," Borohovski said."If the hackers do have access to the backend of Twitter, or direct database access, there is nothing potentially stopping them from pilfering data in addition to using this tweet-scam as a distraction, albeit a very profitable one.
"I'm feeling generous because of Covid-19," the fake tweet read on Musk's account."I'll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour. Good luck, and stay safe out there!"
pizzagate
😂😂😂😂😂now this is too funny
1053SS IS this fake like the Trump Eagle/nazi symbol hack job?
Who did it? Twt?
You are supposed to inform of the OTHERS.
grinningbamE Anyone who fell for that deserves to lose their bit coins.
Anyone not listed as a victim are most likely the perpetrators. It’s science people!
You mean the hackers are telling the truth for them?
Who the heck does he think he is... Pavlov?
The first sign that this was a hack was the idea that Elon Musk would do something for the community.
Obama and Biden have bitcoin ....Interesting 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Wowwww. didn´t know Twitter was sooooo easy to hack..!
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Occam’s razor-Dems hacked by Russians, trump is not being hacked. You do the math. TrumpCrimeFamily
we only have 3 more months & 19 days before we get rid of 'crazy' day/.yippeee/.let the hackers all go to jail do not pass go,do not get a free out of jail card/.if u own all the railroads u are guilty of land grants/.
Trump wasn’t, I wonder why.
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