Twitter admits 130 A-lister accounts compromised to promote Bitcoin scam after 'social engineering' attack

Twitter admits 130 A-lister accounts compromised to promote Bitcoin scam after 'social engineering' attack

Twitter has said that around 130 accounts were targeted by miscreants this week as high-profile individuals and businesses had their accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam.


The estimate comes days after the social media biz admitted the blitz – which snared the accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Uber and former President Barack Obama – was the result of "coordinated social engineering".


In a post at 4am GMT of Friday morning, the Twitter support account said:



Based on what we know right now, we believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the ..

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