“As a precautionary measure and a response measure to protect people's safety, we took the next step: we blocked all accounts that tried to change the password in the last 30 days,” the message said.
At the same time, as the company emphasized, they do not have data that passwords were really stolen.
On Wednesday, July 15, the same messages with the offer to earn bitcoins were posted on Twitter accounts of a number of American celebrities, politicians and businessmen. The hackers include former US Vice President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, billionaire Bill Gates.
Twitter stated that it was a “coordinated attack by individuals who chose a number of employees who had access to internal systems and tools as the target for implementation.”