Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Obama’s twitter hacked in cryptocurrency scam, netizens think it’s ‘money heist’

Late on Wednesday night, the Twitter accounts of Bill Gates and Elon Musk appeared to have been hacked, or fallen prey to a crypto-related scam. However, it was soon noticed that it wasn’t just these two accounts. The Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffet, and more appear to have also been compromised.

The scam posted tweets on behalf of Gates and Musk stated a Bitcoin wallet address along with the promise of sending back double the amount of BTC if a user sends a certain amount to the designated wallet first. The scam appeared to happen in two rounds, wherein the scammers posted similar Bitcoin-scamming tweets. For the second time from both Gates’ and Musk’s accounts after their first tweets were deleted.

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Update By Jayashree

News source: News18