Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and others apparently hacked

[orangecrush]

San Francisco (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday and posted tweets that appeared to promote a cryptocurrency scam.


The accounts, along with those of former President Barack Obama, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, posted similar tweets soliciting donations via Bitcoin to their verified profiles on Wednesday.
"Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time," Gates' tweet said, promising to double all payments to a Bitcoin address for the next 30 minutes.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Twitter's support account said: "We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly."

A little more than an hour after the attack began, Twitter apparently moved to prevent holders of verified accounts from tweeting. A CNN test showed non-verified accounts could still tweet.
"You may be unable to Tweet or reset your password while we review and address this incident," Twitter's support account said.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index.html


I wonder where Roger Stone has been lately?

[magicarpet]

1. Russians flexing to show us how big their muscles are and what they are capable of doing ?

[bdamomma]

2. That was my

first thought too. Putin is slipping, we are onto him. Where's tRumpie in that??? It can't be more obvious it's the Russians doing their dirty illegal deeds.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. No, I suspect being that this pertained to bitcoin, some traders w/ someone on the inside of ...

twitter tried to make a killing on bitcoin (futures or the actual bitcoin)...rather transparent and kind of a stupid way to spruce up sales of bitcoin / or jump the value of bitcoin up a little. They probably can track down who did it by examining recent bitcoin transactions and seeing if there are any telltale patterns.

[blueinredohio]

5. Maybe it was Parscale mad because he got demoted.

Trying to get back in with Trump.

[orangecrush]

6. Looks like it to me.

And this is just the beginning.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Dorsey got had,Hmmm

you could see this one coming.