Twitter accounts of prominent individuals and companies have been compromised (hacked) and they are swindling so much money.
This Crypto-Heist started some hours ago. So far over 856 BTC have been stolen. The Figures keeps increasing.
The hacker First Started with one Bitcoin Wallet Address URL and as awareness began to creep in, the hacked accounts began sharing multiple bitcoin wallet addresses, making it situation difficult to track. Twitter acknowledged the situation at 2:45 p.m. PT Wednesday afternoon, referring to it as a “security incident.”
"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."10:45 PM · Jul 15, 2020
According to Techcrunch @bitcoin, @ripple, @coindesk, @coinbase and @binance were among the accounts hacked with the same message: “We have partnered with CryptoForHealth and are giving back 5000 BTC to the community,” followed by a link to a website, which we are not linking to. The scammer’s website was quickly pulled offline. Kristaps Ronka, chief executive of Namesilo, the domain registrar used by the scammers, said that the company suspended the domain “on the first report” it received.
Some of the compromised accounts were quickly recovered by their owners and tweets deleted. This Technology news shook the world
List of High Profile Hacked Twitter Accounts
- Apple
- Ellon Musk
- Kanye West
- Jeff Bezos
- Bill Gates
- Kim Kardashian
- Barrack Obama
- Wiz Khalifa
- Mr Beast
- Warren Buffet
- Coindesk
- Bitcoin
- Ripple
- Coinbase
- Binance
- Uber
- Joe Bidden
- Benjamin Netanyahu
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