Twitter Hacked In Crypto Scam

Twitter Hacked in Crypto Scam

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by Amelia Scott — 4 years ago in Security 2 min. read
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This was a crazy one: The Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and many, many others were compromised yesterday, posting messages with the address of a bitcoin wallet, promising that any payments would be doubled and sent back.

Apparently a hacker used an internal Twitter administrative tool to gain access to all of these accounts.

The company described this as “a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”

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Amelia Scott

Amelia is a content manager of The Next Tech. She also includes the characteristics of her log in a fun way so readers will know what to expect from her work.

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