By the CyberWire staff
Twitter’s bad, no good Wednesday.
Twitter sustained a major hack Wednesday afternoon in which a number of high-profile, verified Twitter accounts began posting bitcoin scams. The accounts affected included those belonging to Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Warren Buffet, and Michael Bloomberg, as well as the Twitter accounts used by major cryptocurrency exchanges and sites (Gemini, Coinbase, Binance, KuCoin, TRON Foundation, CoinDesk).
Twitter said the attack was the result of “what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.” In response, the social media platform restricted the…
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