.Twitter Says 130 Accounts Targeted in Hack That Hijacked Feeds of Kanye, Biden, Obama, Bezos and Others
The scammers hijacked accounts with tens of millions of followers, including those of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg, Wiz Khalifa, Apple, Uber and Square’s Cash App. They managed to briefly post bogus tweets urging the accounts’ followers to send Bitcoin cybercurrency — promising to send back double the cash.
“Based on what we know right now, we believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident,” the Twitter Support team. “For a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts.”
The company said it is working with “impacted account owners and will continue to do so over the next several days.” Twitter said that at this point, it didn’t know if private data was stolen; however, the company said it believed that the cybercriminals had not gained access to any account passwords.
The hackers managed to raked in $121,000 via the scam from more than 400 payments to three separate Bitcoin accounts, CNBCTwitter said that, according to its preliminary internal investigation, the hackers used “social engineering” tactics to carry out the attack, meaning they were able to trick one or more Twitter employees into providing info on how to gain administrative access to the accounts.
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