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JAKARTA – A number of Twitter accounts belonging to important people have been attacked by hackers. Accounts belonging to Barack Obama to Bill Gates upload spam posts related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. The attack, which shocked the Twitter universe, also had an impact on the decline in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on today’s trading. Observed, the Bitcoin (BTC) exchange rate was at 9 US dollars per coin, where previously this digital currency had a positive strengthening in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin market today (screenshot Coindesk) Reporting from Coindesk , at 16.50 WIB, the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is still red. The exchange rate decline ranged from minus (-) 1.87 to -3.37 percent. “We detected what we believe to be coordinated social engineering attacks by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools,” Twitter said in a statement. Until the close of trading today...

JAKARTA – The price of Bitcoin returned to green at the close of trading today. The value of Bitcoin is observed to be stagnant at around 9.2 US dollars per coin Quoting from Coindesk , at 17.45 WIB, Bitcoin corrected minus (-) 0.16 percent in the last 24 hours. The rupiah exchange rate against this digital currency was also observed to be stagnant at around Rp.134 million per coin. “Bitcoin movement will continue and stay in the range of 8.9 to 9.2 US dollars per coin,” said Senior Trading for cryptocurrencies, Sasha Goldberg, Wednesday, July 15. Caption According to him, since June, the value of Bitcoin has corrected in the range of 9 US dollars to a high of 9.4 US dollars. The same thing happened to Ethereum (ETH) which closed at 239 US dollars or was corrected minus (-) 0.49 percent. Price decline also occurred for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) which closed at 228 US dollars per coin or corrected minus (-) 1.5 points from the previous. In line with Litecoin (LTC) which is...

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. Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.We’re diagnosing and will share ...