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Bill Gates Twitter Account until Barack Obama Hacked for Spamming Bitcoin

Bill Gates Twitter account until Barack Obama Hacked for Spamming Bitcoin

JAKARTA – A hacker managed to take over a number of Twitter accounts belonging to several technology figures such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, even former president of the United States (US) Barack Obama. The accounts were created as if they were spreading tweet spam related to the Bitcoin currency.

Quoted from BBC International, Thursday July 16, the hacker also took over the accounts of world celebrities Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, and even Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg. In these hacked accounts, the hackers posted tweets asking for donations via Bitcoin on their accounts on Wednesday.

“Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time. By sending $ 1,000, I’m sending you $ 2,000 back. I promise to double all payments to Bitcoin addresses over the next 30 minutes,” the hacker tweeted on Bill’s Twitter account. Gates.

A spokesman for Bill Gates immediately confirmed the tweet in Gates’ account, “We can confirm that this tweet was not sent by Bill Gates. This appears to be part of a larger problem facing Twitter. Twitter is aware and is working to recover the account.”

In response to this, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also immediately conducted an internal check of the microblogging platform’s security system. “We are diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of what happened,” added Dorsey.

According to publicly available blockchain records, in that short time, the links displayed in the tweets of these figures’ accounts have received hundreds of revenues totaling more than 100,000 US dollars. This means that many Twitter users are deceived and tempted by this.

An hour after the mass attack began, Twitter immediately moved quickly to take over the hacked account. This works with verified Twitter accounts or blue ticks, while unverified accounts can still be tricked by hackers.

“You may not be able to Tweet or reset your password while we review and resolve this incident. Some other account functionality (will also be limited),” said the Twitter Support account.

Suppose, three hours after the hack, Twitter confirms the public that it has returned the hacked account to its owner. It is known, this hacking incident is the largest in the history of Twitter. The hack concerns not only bitcoin scams, but because so many world leaders are using Twitter.

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