Well this is weird. A very well coordinated hack is netting some cryto-hackers millions by offering a fake donation through the hacked accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama:
Joe Biden and Barack Obama's accounts as well. https://t.co/QroaHB2IDw pic.twitter.com/e4Rzc2dLDL
— Sarah Mucha (@sarahmucha) July 15, 2020
… and Kanye West, Elon Musk and Bill Gates:
Kanye west, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk Twitter accounts got hacked and this guys have made over 10M dollars
This will go down as the biggest heist on Twitter pic.twitter.com/q7mUXYzpt0
— ploque🔥 (@_oluwatobiiiii) July 15, 2020
Apparently they got access through one of those apps that everyone gave their access to. They posted that message, which people took to be real, and they start sending bitcoin to the hackers. Instead of giving money back, the hackers keep the money. Very clever.
I expect Twitter to shut down these accounts soon…
UPDATE: The list gets bigger and bigger:
The list of accounts hacked so far have >300 million followers
-Barack Obama (120m)
-Bill Gates (51m)
-Elon Musk (37m)
-Wiz Khalifa (36m)
-Kanye West (30m)
-Joe Biden (7m)
-YouTube's MrBeast (6m)
-Apple (5m)
-Mike Bloomberg (3m)
-Jeff Bezos (1.5m)
-Uber (1m)
-Bitcoin (1m)— MIT CSAIL #ICML2020 #RSS2020 (@MIT_CSAIL) July 15, 2020
I hear the stock price of Twitter is falling…