This is the most combined hackers attack targeting verified and non verified accounts of public figures, personalities, crypto exchanges and so far there is a rumour that the criminals just with the attack managed to secure more than 12 BTC (still to be checked, as the attack effects still ongoing), worth more than $109,000 and the damages could be a lot more, the hackers after securing those accounts spreaded a wide range scam promising to give back double of what each user sent to the address. No one at the start imagined that was a scam and that the account were hacked!
Below there is a list of twitter hacked accounts and you will be surprised which ones they had, some still, on their control, even Barack Obama (former U.S President) and Bill Gates (Microsoft Chairman) got Hacked:
Binance Crypto exchange
Gemini Crypto exchange
Kucoin Crypto Exchange
Bitfinex Crypto exchange
ChangPeng Zhao, BINANCE CEO
Coindesk crypto media
Charlie Lee, Litecoin Founder
Justin Sun, TRON Founder
TRON Foundation
Former U.S. vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden
Former U.S. president Barack Obama
Billionaire Warren Buffet a well known wordwide investor
Boxer Personality and heavyweight champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Wiz Khalifa, a U.S rapper
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
Rapper and music star Kanye West
Twitter CEO company Cash App
Tesla CEO and SpaceX Founder Elon Musk
Amazon CEO and the world most wealthy person Jeff Bezos
Rideshare app Uber
Tech giant company Apple.
This are accounts who Twitter got noticed and working hard to give back control to the right owners, and in the meantime when the Team is working users could have problem to retweet or change passwords specially verified accounts. Until now there have been confirmation that 0.65 BTC (~6000) have been transfered to the hackers address (the value may varies as the incident proceeds) and seems that criminals used the old scam scheme to impersonate users:
"Giveaways where users need to send some Bitcoin and their suppose to send double back", a scam proved method that is ripping off peoples money and making millions to scammers, if something looks too good to be true is probably a scam, stay aware from that!
It's until know a mysterious situation of how the hackers could secure at same time so many Twitter accounts without being flagged by Twitter systems of defense, but I will be in touch to see what will be their statement about the incident and if it ended successfully.
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