Exclusive: U.S. FBI is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hack, sources say

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hacking, two sources familiar with the situation said, after hackers seized control of accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian and others in what appeared to be a bitcoin scam.

Earlier the FBI had said: “We are aware of today’s security incident involving several Twitter accounts belonging to high profile individuals. The accounts appear to have been compromised in order to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud.

”Reporting by Joseph Menn; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama

 

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I believe I have been trolled on my social media platforms since I began speaking out against Trump by several fake celebrity followers.

I'm happy this incident is being investigated. I c ppl here and n my neighborhood trying stuff like this lots. One problem may very well b perps r under some1 elses wifi acct, stealing, but u can still pull the MAC etc. Check the syncs attempted and completed. Ppl do stuff.

And what if they find that the GOP is behind it?

Ban twitter

One would imagine so as one of the victims is a former President and a Secret Service protectee.

What were they doing before when it was hacked.

Probably Parsqual

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And somehow TikTok is a bigger threat

Oh Thank God. So glad to hear that Nick Cannon didn't actually tweet those horrible things...Oh never mind!

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