There was a big scandal on Twitter tonight. Twitter accounts of technology giants such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Apple were hacked. The fact that the contents of the messages sent from the accounts affected by this vulnerability on Twitter are the same, shows that the perpetrators of this attack are the same person or group.
The CEO of the giant electric car manufacturer Tesla Elon Musk tonight at 23:17 on Twitter shared an incomprehensible tweet. The content of the tweet read, “I am feeling very generous due to Covid-19.. Within an hour I will double back all payments to my BTC account.. Good luck, stay safe!” statements were made. The tweet also contained the attacker’s cryptocurrency wallet.
Then this tweet on Elon Musk’s account was deleted and replaced with a new fake tweet.. The new tweet read, “I’m so grateful, I’m doubling the payments sent to my BTC address. Send $1,000 and I’ll send back $2,000. I’m only going to do that for the next 30 minutes.” then a crypto wallet was shared again. The last tweet by Elon Musk was also shared from Bill Gates’ account and deleted after a while.
According to Ryan Mac, who took charge in BuzzFeed News, even if people fall into this fraud, blockchain-based crypto money He stated that their transfers were kept on record.
Statemen’s Accounts Was Also Hacked
The attack did not end with Bill Gates. First, the Twitter accounts of tech giants such as Jeff Bezos, Uber and Apple were hijacked by hackers.. In the scandalous Twitter attack, hackers did not only target technology giants. These tweets were also sent from the accounts of names such as Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden, Singer Kanye West, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former United States President Barack Obama, in the attack that also targeted political state leaders.
Twitters from accounts that were hacked due to a problem caused by Twitter are deleted even though they are deleted again.
Twitter is Aware of the Problem
Cybercriminals who scam BTC on Twitter are dealt with. Names such as the famous singer Wiz Khalifa and the famous boxer Floyd Mayweather, the famous Youtuber MrBeast were added to his accounts.. Even Twitter’s own account shared this scam tweet.. At 00:45 at night (Thursday), Twitter shared the subject from its own account.. In the tweet, Twitter announced that they are aware of the security problem and are working to fix it.
According to the statements made, the number of bitcoins sent to fake accounts has reached 13 BTC.. New names are being added to the victims list.
Some Accounts’ Tweeting Features Disabled
Twitter has disabled the tweeting feature of most popular Twitter accounts after the attack. Currently, this feature is only available for Twitter verified accounts with a “blue tick”.. Normal users can tweet as they wish, but some verified accounts can only retweet tweets.. Twitter Support team stated that there may be problems with password reset processes during this time.