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Twitter Collaborates with the FBI to Investigate World Famous Account Hacking Incidents

Twitter Collaborates with the FBI to Investigate World Famous Account Hacking Incidents

JAKARTA – Twitter is collaborating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the hacking incident of world famous Twitter accounts yesterday, Wednesday, July 17. Where these accounts fall victim to cryptocurrency spamming attacks.

Reported The VergeThis hacking has caused serious concern among US lawmakers, with some fear that weaknesses like this in social media could be exploited by malicious actors in coordinated attacks aimed at causing chaos among communities.

“We are aware of a security incident today involving several Twitter accounts belonging to high-profile individuals. These accounts appear to have been compromised to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud,” said an official statement from the FBI, Friday 17 July.

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Previously known, several accounts of world celebrities and technology figures such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, even former US President Barack Obama were taken over by hackers and hackers posted tweets asking for donations via Bitcoin on their account.

“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 and others.

Knowing this, Twitter is trying to remove fraudulent messages. But hackers seem to have control over the situation as they can return to their accounts and repost messages.

Ultimately, Twitter disabled the ability for verified accounts to post tweets. Twitter has also successfully investigated what is believed to be, “a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”

“We are looking for what malicious activity they may be doing or the information they might access and will share as much here as we have,” Twitter said in an official statement.

Meanwhile, several US politicians also asked Twitter questions about President Donald Trump’s account, it was immediately confirmed by the White House that Trump’s Twitter account was safe from being touched by hackers.

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