Bitcoin scammers hack Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk

On July 16, Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and many or important personalities were hacked by Bitcoin scammers to launched bitcoin scam tweets just before 4:30 PM ET. Or major names in list include Kanye West, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, and Warren Buffet. 

Twitter accounts of Apple, Uber, Square’s CashApp, and Coinbase were also hacked with intent to post similar messs which contained a bitcoin wallet address that directed to hackers.  

A series of scam tweets were launched that read, “I‘m feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address.” tweet also contained a bitcoin address, presumably one associated with hacker’s crypto wallet. 

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ account also posted a similar mess at 1:48 pm PT but n it was quickly deleted. Immediately, a Twitter spokesperson said in a tweet that  team was “looking into matter.” company stated that it will share a statement soon.  

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Spammers earned more than $55,000

While some of scam tweets were taken down by Twitter, subsequent tweets followed that read, “Feeling grateful doubling all payments sent to my BTC address! You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for next 30 minutes.”

BTC address of all tweets from hacked accounts was same including on tweets by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’ Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. While Gemini claimed that its account was protected by two-factor auntication and company used a strong password, account was hacked into by spammers that earned more than $55,000.

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