Verified Twitter accounts owned
by Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and Elon Musk, chief executive officer of
SpaceX, have been hacked in a suspected bitcoin scam.
The accounts were hacked
alongside those of other high-profile users on Wednesday evening.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Joe
Biden, US democratic presidential aspirant; Kanye West, US rapper; Apple; and
Uber, are among the victims of suspected bitcoin hackers.
Others include Barack Obama,
former US president; and Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City.
The scam was done in a series of
coordinated tweets with emphasis on “giving back” through doubling of bitcoins
amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Collage of some of the hacked accounts |
The tweets provided details of bitcoin addresses where the
transaction is to be made.
“Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time.
You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000,” a tweet from Gates account read.
Kanye west, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk Twitter accounts got hacked and this guys have made over 10M dollars— ploque🔥 (@_oluwatobiiiii) July 15, 2020
This will go down as the biggest heist on Twitter pic.twitter.com/q7mUXYzpt0
Elon Musk's, Bill Gates' and Kanye West's Twitter accounts hacked.— living king (@ToyosiAG) July 15, 2020
5,314 people have fallen for the scam already, and sent these hackers $7.8M USD thus far.
Here is the hacker info 👇🏿👇🏿 pic.twitter.com/eal5oRscyE
Similar tweets were shared from other accounts, stating that
the transactions will be done within 30 minutes.
According to data from the public register of bitcoin
transactions, the bitcoin address was inundated with more than 200 instances of
people sending it money, adding up to a total of $100,000.
This implies that several persons complied with the request.
Many of the hacked accounts have high number of followers.
Gates has 51.1 million Twitter followers, Musk has 36.9 million, while Apple
has 4.5 million followers.
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