Published 19:16 IST, July 16th 2020

Floyd Mayweather's Twitter a/c hacked in bitcoin scam along with Barack Obama, Bill Gates

American professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was amongst the many prominent celebrities who saw their Twitter accounts hacked in a major bitcoin scam.

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American professional boxer Floyd Maywear Jr was amongst many prominent celebrities that fell prey to a Twitter hack on Thursday. Twitter bitcoin scam saw accounts of prominent celebrities like Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, and various ors hacked to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Twitter bitcoin scam saw over 300 transactions take place, after  hacker or group of hackers responsible first gained access to Twitter's company network.

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Twitter hack: Floyd Maywear Twitter hacked in major scam along with Barack Obama and Bill Gates

On Thursday, Floyd Maywear Twitter account was hacked into in a major Twitter bitcoin scam that rocked cryptocurrency world. A number of verified Twitter accounts belonging to major figures in politics, entertainment, tech and business were hacked into with each account varying versions of same mess, asking followers to donate money in cryptocurrency with promise of being paid back double amount. Floyd Maywear, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, and Democratic minee for President, Joe Biden all fell prey to Twitter hack and all ir tweets included a working Bitcoin dress to send money to. Here's mess that was posted on Floyd Maywear's account:

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(Picture Courtesy: Floyd Maywear Twitter)

Floyd Maywear Twitter hacked: Social Media platform responds to Twitter hack

micro-blogging website responded to Twitter hack and dressed situation by restricting ability to tweet or reset password for some users in order to stop Twitter hack from affecting more users. restrictions were later removed when Twitter anunced that it h detected a coordinated social engineering attack by hackers who initially targetted employees of micro-blogging company who h access to sensitive data like internal systems and tools. Reports claim that information related to Twitter min tool comes from people having direct kwledge of framework, possibly, an employee of Twitter itself. 

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On Blockchain.com, account has received a total of "12.86" BTC, which in US currency is approximately a whopping $118,482.65. It is expected that Twitter's support group will provide detailed information about Bitcoin scam hack soon.  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later said that it was a tough day for everyone at company and said that micro-blogging site will diagsing and will share everything y can on Twitter hack when y have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened. 

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(Im Courtesy: Floyd Maywear Jr Instagram)

19:16 IST, July 16th 2020