Bitcoin scammers hacked Apple account to sent out its first ever public tweet

While Apple joined Twitter back in 2016 in an effort to promote its product on microblogging site, company never tweeted anything from its verified handle until July 16. However, Apple’s first-ever public tweet turned out to be glitched with a Bitcoin scam as multiple high profile Twitter accounts were hacked by cryptocurrency scammers on wee hours of Thursday.

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Apple's first public tweet a scam

On June 16, high-profile celebrities such as Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Joe Biden and many ors, all of whom have verified profiles were targeted by Bitcoin scammers. hackers tweeted spam messs from se profiles and asked ir followers to send money to a specified Bitcoin wallet. This was one of worst security breaches in history of social media.

After hack was discovered at 4:17 PM ET, Twitter almost took an hour to respond and tified users at 5:45 PM ET that it was investigating attack. Or verified accounts that were also hacked included Uber, Square’s CashApp, and Coinbase and personalities like Mike Bloomberg, Warren Buffet, and Kim Kardashian.

In a later statement released by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, he stated that it was a 'tough day' and that company felt terrible for incident. In his statement, Twitter CEO did t provide any details about extent to which Twitter's own systems may have been compromised but promised transparency with regards to incident in future.

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