The FBI has opened an investigation into the hacking of the social networking site "Twitter", according to Al-Arabiya, and a report by the British newspaper "The Independent" revealed that the breach that affected many of the most famous "Twitter" accounts in the world might be a cover for something more harmful, Twitter admitted that the hackers may have “other malicious activity” while they had access to the accounts, and they could access other information on the site while they had a short time to access the company’s platform.
The breakout appeared overnight, as many of the large follow-up Twitter accounts posted tweets asking people to send Bitcoin to a specific address, and the tweets wrongly claimed that any money sent to the accounts would be paid twice, as part of what the messages claimed was an attempt to return fans.
These tricks have been popular on Twitter in recent years, as some users such as Elon Musk have been targeted by criminals who create fake accounts in their name and post similar messages, indicating that users should send Bitcoin to receive some in return, but they have never been on this. Large or embarrassing range.
Official Twitter accounts of a number of prominent personalities in the United States, such as Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and major American companies such as Apple and Uber were subjected to a massive piracy operation, on Wednesday afternoon, during which pirates managed to post ads calling Followers of these accounts to send money in digital "bitcoin" with a promise to double it.
And he gave some of these fake tweets, which the owners of the targeted accounts of the piracy operation had deleted, each follower of these accounts 30 minutes to send to a specific address an amount of bitcoin currency in order to receive twice that amount.
As forged the fake tweet posted on the account of Elon Musk, president of Tesla, "Happy Wednesday! I will give Bitcoin to all of my followers. I will double all the sums sent to the bitcoin address below."
For his part, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey commented on the piracy process: “A hard day for us, we are on Twitter. We all feel bad that this happened ... and we will share everything we know when we have more complete knowledge of what exactly happened.”