Twitter accounts of Obama,Bill Gate, Elon Musk,Bezos and others hacked by bitcoin scammers
Wednesday night for micro-blogging site Twitter proved to be a complete nightmare. Twitter accounts of many prominent world figures including Barack Obama, Bill Gates were hacked, after which Twitter closed all blue tick accounts for several hours. After hacking the account, money was being sought in the form of bitcoins by tweeting from all the accounts, although this difficulty has been removed immediately.
Whose account has been hacked, what has been tweeted?
Twitter accounts of many prominent personalities were hacked together, including former US President Barack Obama, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Tesla’s Elon Musk. And the same was tweeted from everyone’s account, you send money through bitcoin and we will give you double the money.
Apart from this, it was also written in the tweet that ‘the time has come that we should return what we have earned from the society’. With these tweets, it was said to give money through bitcoin.
For example, it was written from Bill Gates’ Twitter account that everyone is telling me that it is time to give back to the society, so I want to say that I will return double the payment that will be sent to me in the next thirty minutes. You send bitcoin for 1000 dollars, I will send back 2000 dollars.’
Has anyone been harmed?
If such a tweet was made from such a large profile, then obviously everyone was shocked. Cyber experts believe that amidst this hack, hackers have been able to extract bitcoins from about 300 people.
What is bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a digital currency, which can be kept in digital wallet only. Now it has been implemented in a few countries and the price of one bitcoin is very high everywhere. According to the investment, people find it quite attractive.
Tweeting on behalf of Twitter CEO Jack, said that today was a very difficult day in Twitter, we tried to stop the hacking. For this a lot of accounts were closed, although now accounts have been resumed. The investigation of how this hacking happened and who was behind it continues.
