A large number of high-profile Twitter accounts, (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple and others), were hacked on Wednesday.
Verified Gates, Musk, and Apple accounts posted tweets promoting an encryption scam, asking their followers to send money to a blockchain address in exchange for a larger payout.
The official accountFormer Vice President and US presidential candidate Joe Biden's account was also hacked. Hackers also breached the official account of former US President Barack Obama.
Here are some of the breached accounts that have been identified so far:
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos
Joe Biden
Barack Obama
Mike Bloomberg
Warren Buffet
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),
Kanye West
Wiz Khalifa
Kim Kardashian
Floyd Mayweather
Uber
CoinDesk
Binance
Bitcoin
Gemini
Twitter reported on one official position:
"We know of a security incident that affects Twitter accounts. We are investigating and will take steps to correct it. We will inform you all soon ".
As part of the company's recovery efforts, verified accounts used to promote fraud have been blocked and can not tweet.
Most of the hacked accounts have now been restored and the publications were removed. However, the bitcoin address mentioned in most of the tweets raised more than $100.000 from hundreds of transactions.
