Twitter posts say thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins may have been sent to the fraudsters’ digital account
San Francisco:
Official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to trick people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin in a massive platform hack of social media.
The list of accounts requisitioned simultaneously has grown rapidly to include Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Uber, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, bitcoin companies and many others.
The messages, which have been largely deleted, were forwarded from the range of high-level accounts telling people that they had 30 minutes to send $ 1000 in bitcoin to be sent back twice as much.
“It’s a scam, don’t participate!” The co-founder of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, Cameron Winklevoss, warned in a tweet from his official Twitter account.
“This is the same attack / takeover that other major crypto Twitter accounts have experienced. Be careful!”
Comments and posts on Twitter have indicated that thousands of dollars in bitcoins may have been sent to the scammers’ digital account.
Twitter told AFP that it is investigating the situation and will make a statement.
“Given the accounts that have been hacked more recently (Apple, Uber, Gates, Musk, etc.), I am now leaning so that this is an internal compromise of a Twitter system, not a API attack from a social aggregator service, “Bitcoin authority and Author Andreas Antonopoulos said in a tweet to his account @aantonop.
One version of the scam invited people to click on a link to which they would be exploited.
“All of the major encrypted Twitter accounts have been compromised,” Winklevoss warned in a tweet.
Among the hacked accounts was @gemini used by crypto-exchange, according to his twin brother and co-founder Tyler Winklevoss.
“@ Gemini’s Twitter account, along with a number of other encrypted Twitter accounts, has been hacked,” said Tyler Winklevoss in a tweet.
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