On Wednesday night, the Twitter accounts of many celebrities, the likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian West, and others were compromised.
Scam tweets were tweeted from their accounts which said that if a user sends a certain amount to a specific Bitcoin wallet address, they will be sent double the amount they deposited. When the first tweets were deleted, the scammers posted similar tweets again.
The scam message from Musk’s profile read, “You know I living giving back to my community. I’m doubling all BTC payments sent to my address. You send $1,000 and I will send #$2,000 back! Tell your family & friends! Only going on for 30 minutes. (sic)”
Twitter acknowledged the scam and stated that they are investigating this incident. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted, “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened. 💙 to our teammates working hard to make this right."
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