The attack had been described as the biggest hack in the social media platform’s history.
It compromised 130 Twitter accounts, including 45 that send a tweet claiming that anyone who transferred money to a linked Bitcoin address could double their investment.
The Twitter accounts of several high-profile figures, including Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, were hacked in a Bitcoin scam.
The scammers behind the operation tricked 398 people into handing over more than £109,000 in bitcoins.
Twitter described the incident as a coordinated social engineering attack against employees with access to its internal tools.
Source: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/celebrity-twitter-accounts-hacked-in-coordinated-cyber-attack
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/twitter
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