By The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin in the hope of doubling their money.
Twitter posts, which have been deleted, were fired off from an array of high-profile accounts telling people they had 30 minutes to send $1,000 in bitcoin in order to be sent back twice as much.
Internally, we’ve taken significant steps to limit access to internal systems and tools while our investigation is ongoing. More updates to come as our investigation continues.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020
“This is a SCAM, DO NOT participate!” Gemini cryptocurrency exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss warned in a tweet from his official account at Twitter.
“This is the same attack/takeover that other major crypto twitter accounts are experiencing. Be vigilant!”
Comments and posts at Twitter indicated thousands of dollars in bitcoin may have been sent to the scammers’ digital account.
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— Cameron Winklevoss (@cameron) December 11, 2018
yep, this has to be a site-wide hack
no way they’re brute forcing their way into these accounts pic.twitter.com/ehcqKJo5Mk
— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) July 15, 2020
