Twitter Bitcoin Scam: Hackers Accessed 36 Accounts
July 24, 2020
6:35 am
Twitter has revealed that the hackers who took over the accounts of high profiles in massive bitcoin scam, accessed direct message inboxes of 36 accounts.
The social media company corrected its earlier statement that the attackers tweeted from around 130 accounts and downloaded mass data from eight accounts.
Last week, the hackers were able to tweet from the accounts for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Apple and Uber among others.
They tweeted a scam asking for bitcoin and they received $120,000 worth of Bitcoin …
