Several High-Profile Accounts Hacked in the Biggest Twitter Hack of All Time
Jul 16, 2020
Social media platform Twitter, earlier today on Wednesday, was on fire after it suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history . A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously in what's a far-reaching hacking campaign carried out to promote a cryptocurrency scam. The broadly targeted hack posted similar worded messages urging millions of followers to send money to a specific bitcoin wallet address in return for larger payback. "Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time," a tweet from Mr Gates' account said. "You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000." Twitter termed the security incident as a "coordinated social engineering attack" against its employees who have access to its internal tools. As of writing, the scammers behind the operation have amassed nearly $120,000 in bitco