Biden and Obama's Twitter was hacked, requesting deposit
Hackers broke into Twitter of celebrities like Biden and Obama on July 15, asking followers to deposit money into a bitcoin account.
The fraud targeted the Twitter accounts of tech tycoons, politicians and big companies, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Mike Bloomberg, and Kanye West, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden at an event in Wilmington, Delaware, September 2019. Photo: Reuters.
The tweets, most of which were removed from the above accounts, told people that they had 30 minutes to deposit $ 1,000 into a bitcoin account in order to receive it twice as much.
"This is a scam, don't get involved," Bitcoin Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss warned in a tweet from his official account. Comments and posts at Twitter show that thousands of dollars of bitcoin could have been sent to the fraudsters' accounts.
Twitter said it was working to fix a "security problem". "We are investigating and taking steps to fix this problem. We will update the situation to everyone immediately," the social network wrote in a tweet.
Biden's campaign team said that Twitter locked the account for a few minutes and deleted the related scams.
Bezos, Gates and Musk are among the 10 richest people in the world, with tens of millions of followers on Twitter.
The scam tweet posted on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's account. Screenshots.
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