Some hackers come forward and told that how they hacked accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others.
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● Hackers said that they use Twitter tool to hack high profile accounts.
● Official Twitter spokesperson said that they are still investing if that twitter employee was hacked or employee sell this tool to hackers.
● Hacked Twitter account used for bitcoin scams.
Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West and many others high profile twitter accounts were hacked last night. Then hackers used this accounts for Bitcoin scams and fool people to donate bitcoins.
One of the Twitter employee is in under investigation for this chaos - if that he himself hacked this accounts or he gave tool to hackers.
One hackers sources said that they paid Twitter insider for tool.
Hackers used tool to reset associated mails to make owner difficult to regain access of this account.
Then hacker Tweet a crypto currency link to fool people to donate Bitcoins that was noticed by everyone on the internet that blasted of ths twitter platform.
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Twitter spokesperson also said that hacks were done with coordination. social engineering used by hackers to target our employees with access to internal tools and system.
Hack was so well planned that some of crypto currency sites were also hacked and falsely announced that they are partnered with 'CryptoForHealth' on their twitter account.
They claimed that they will provide bitcoins but first people have to send some amount first.
Other high profile Twitter accounts that were hacked were that of ex US President Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Mike Bloomberg.
Official accounts of Uber and Apple was also compromised. The spam message directed other users to invest bitcoin in the wallet address that was given in the tweets and claimed that they would get double the money they spend.
