Washington, ANI. Twitter accounts of many big people in America were hacked. On Wednesday, hackers who hacked their Twitter account included Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, US rapper Kanye West, former US Vice President Joe Biden, former US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Twitter accounts of Warren Buffett, Apple, Uber and others have been hacked.
After hacking the Twitter handle, a special message was posted on it. The Twitter handle of former President Barack Obama was also hacked. It is clear from the messages that this was done for the purpose of cryptocurrency scam. These messages were also deleted after a while.
The hacker put a link in the message on which the bitcoin can be traded. Posted, ‘You are going to give us 5000 bit coins’. After the information, the domain of the website was canceled. Similar posts were also hacked by hacking Twitter handles of Amazon co-founders JeffBejos and Bill Gates.
It is written from Apple’s account that we want to give something to our people. Hope you also support. Any bitcoins you send will be double returned. It is only for 30 minutes. It is written from Elon Musk’s profile that because of Kovid 19, I am giving people double bit by double bit. It is all safe.
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In a short time, such tweets started being handled by many companies. Bitcoin scam was also tried from the accounts of Apple, Uber and many more companies. Questions have also been raised on Twitter after this incident. After all, due to which deficiency, even the Twitter handle of such big names got hacked? This means that there is a loophole in Twitter due to which nobody’s privacy is protected.
Learn what Twitter said
At the same time, after this incident, Twitter said that we are aware of Twitter account hijacking. We are currently investigating the case. Along with this, steps are being taken to correct this. We will update everyone soon. Twitter said that we are reviewing the matter, due to which users will not be able to tweet from their Twitter account nor reset the password.
