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The Twitter accounts of Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Barack Obama were among those hacked in what appeared to be a major cryptocurrency scam.
Official accounts on the same social media platform, including those for Joe Biden, Apple, Uber and billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, were also targeted.
They were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday evening and a scammers’ message posted encouraging users to send 1,000 dollars (£794) to a Bitcoin address.
In return, users were promised that their money will be doubled and returned to them.
Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/twitter-accounts-of-elon-musk-and-bill-gates-hack-bitcoin-scam-a4499606.html
Fantastic news
Just delete Twitter. We'd all be alot happier.
So what.. they r bs accounts, we have all the relevant info already, you all stay safe.
Not exactly shocked by this "news"
RIP the dumbass who sent 40.000
Trump could potentially be behind this hack particularly Obama's one
Why is this news?
What goes round comes round obummer you like hacking otheres just like you did to trump campaign it’s pay back
Someone who the Jews don't like must have recently invested in Bitcoin.
High profile??? LoL ho actually cares about them greedy ones?:)
the gullible got scammed – no real loss is it
Mr Beast got hacked aswell
This had nothing to do with BC
Wars are fought quite differently these days.
ONLY A STUPID CAN EXPECT SOMETHING GOOD COMING FROM THE DIRTIEST SIDE OF THE PLANET
Obama himself is a hacker, he scam the Trump campaign 2016 elections. I don’t see a big deal about Obamagate twitter account being hijack.
Wow! That's some next level stuff. Could've started a war.
Nice. Cheers guys.
Haha hack the people that matter not everyday folk
Russian hackers are the best 🤦♀️🤦♂️👍