Major Twitter hack pushes bitcoin scam on Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple, Uber, Biden accounts, collects $$$$

This is quite a major hack.

Now is a good time to change your Twitter password, if you are a user.

Hackers pumping a cryptocurrency giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, prominent individuals, major corporations, and at least one news organization.

The Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama and VP and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden were compromised amid the ongoing event, and at the time of this blog post, hours after the attack began, both accounts with the malicious urls are still active.

Twitter is doing a bad job handling this security event. Very bad.

Hackers gained access to the official verified Twitter accounts of some of Americas most famous, wealthy, and powereful people and best-known brands, including:

- Barack Obama Joe BidenJeff BezosBill GatesKanye WestMike BloombergElon MuskApple- Uber

and many other verified accounts with smaller followings were hacked to promote the scam, which collected hundreds of thousands of dollars within the following hour.

Rumors suggesting a Twitter employee with access to the user management panel was targeted. That would explain why none of the tweets appear to be coming from a 3rd party app and even affected accounts with 2FA.

— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) July 15, 2020

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