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Several High Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked in Massive Security Breach

Ejanakpur Khabar by Ejanakpur Khabar
July 16, 2020
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From about 1pm on Wednesday, a range of celebrity and brand accounts started tweeting out a message promoting a crypto giveaway, in which funds sent to a specified bitcoin wallet would send back double the amount to the user.

The messages, which are all similar, and all include the same bitcoin wallet address, were seemingly part of an elaborate hack – possibly the largest ever seen on Twitter in terms of scale and associated reach.

Among a range of verified profiles, the hackers gained access to the accounts of :

  • Kanye West
  • Joe Biden
  • Bill Gates
  • Apple
  • Jeff Bezos
  • Elon Musk
  • Uber
  • Mike Bloomberg
  • Floyd Mayweather
  • Barack Obama
  • HQ Trivia
  • Warren Buffet
  • Kim Kardashian

And users did indeed begin sending money , because the exchanges are publicly listed on the blockchain-based network, it was possible to see the transactions shifting funds to the bitcoin wallet address listed in the tweets. More than $110k had been transferred just an hour after first reports of the hack started coming through. Reports have suggested that these transactions are not reversible.

Twitter has since investigated the incident, and has provided this update :

“Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far:

We detected 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. We know they used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf. We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it.

Once we became aware of the incident, we immediately locked down the affected accounts and removed Tweets posted by the attackers. We also limited functionality for a much larger group of accounts, like all verified accounts (even those with no evidence of being compromised), while we continue to fully investigate this. This was disruptive, but it was an important step to reduce risk. Most functionality has been restored but we may take further actions, and will update you if we do.

We have locked accounts that were compromised and will restore access to the original account owner only when we are certain we can do so securely. Internally, we’ve taken significant steps to limit access to internal systems and tools while our investigation is ongoing. More updates to come as our investigation continues.”

The incident is a major concern for Twitter’s security, and while Twitter is still working out exactly how the hackers managed to gain access to these accounts, much of the damage has been done, with their messages reaching potentially millions of users.

It could even lead to high profile users abandoning the platform entirely, or political leaders shutting down their accounts. If it’s possible for their profiles to be accessed on such a broad scale, that obviously leaves a lingering question over how much trust they can put in the platform.

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