All hell broke loose on Twitter late Wednesday afternoon thanks to a sitewide hack perpetrated by a group of hackers who’d reportedly paid off a Twitter employee for access to the social media network’s back-end control panel tools.
Using these tools, the hackers commandeered the accounts of several high-powered blue checkmark figures — including former President Barack Obama and presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden — and used them to trick unsuspecting followers into sending them Bitcoin payments.
Accounts hacked by Bitcoin scammers:
– Bill Gates
– Elon Musk
– Joe Biden
– Warren Buffett
– Kanye West
– Michael Bloomberg
– Apple
– Uber
– Jeff Bezos
– Barack Obama
– Benjamin Netanyahu— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) July 15, 2020
David Adams