Kim Kardashian/Elon Musk
last night Twitter suffered a major attack by hackers in the entire history of the existence of the social network. In a dozen verified accounts of celebrities, including bill gates, Elon musk, “the richest man in the world,” Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, candidate for President of the United States Democratic party Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kim Kardashian and her husband Kanye West, as well as on the official pages of Uber and Apple, was published the same message. In the tweet subscribers were asked to send to this account from any amount in bitcoin, and in return receive twice as much money.
All bitcoins sent to the address below, will return in double. If you send $ 1000, I’ll pay $ 2000. Only do it for 30 minutes
— reads a message on the page, Elon musk, Kanye West and other famous personalities.
a Screenshot from Twitter Elon musk
These tweets were fixed on the pages of stars and was removed several minutes later. At this time, some Internet users made jokes and assumed written fake, and others have already sent their bitcoins for the specified account. How many people became victims of scams is unknown, but on one of the wallets was found 12 bitcoins, the value of which is more than 100 thousand dollars.
the Company has already launched an investigation after the incident, details of Director of Twitter, Jack Dorsey promised to share after the developers finally understand the reason for hacking. However, users of the social network once again received the opportunity to publish their tweets, but support warned that because of the diagnostic system may periodically experience downtime.
a Hard day for us on Twitter. We all feel terrible about what happened,
— said the cyber attack on Twitter, Jack Dorsey.
Jack Dorsey
According to preliminary version, the hackers took over the accounts of famous personalities and large companies through internal tools employees for the period of the investigation, the access thereto is temporarily restricted. The American edition of Vice’s claims that he contacted the cheaters and found out that they could bribe one of the staff Twitter. After securing access to the admin panel, the hackers were able to tie user accounts to your mail. By the way, official confirmation of this version has not yet received.
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a Screenshot from Twitter Kanye West
