Hackers put Twitter through a whirlwind on Wednesday, hijacking dozens of accounts and potentially making off with more than $120,000 in the process.
The hackers took over the accounts of a long list of high-profile individuals and companies, including: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Michael Bloomberg, Apple, Uber, and several major cryptocurrency exchanges.
The compromised accounts then tweeted out messages saying they were "giving back" to their communities and would match any donations made to various scam cryptocurrency wallets.
From there, hundreds of people appeared to take the bait — one wallet address posted widely received more than 350 transactions within a few hours. Business Insider identified at least three wallets mentioned in tweets by seemingly compromised accounts, but it's not clear that those were the only ones that rece ..
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