“Based on what we know at the moment, we believe that in the framework of this incident, approximately 130 accounts were susceptible to hacker attacks to one degree or another,” the message said.
Based on what we know right now, we believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident. For a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts.
- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 17, 2020The company said that in some cases, hackers managed to gain control and send messages from user accounts.
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.
Among the victims of the hacking are former US Vice President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, billionaire Bill Gates.
Later it became known that in the framework of the fight against large-scale hacker hacking, Twitter decided to block all accounts that tried to change the password in the last 30 days.