Foreign media: Twitter was massively attacked by hackers, Biden, Obama, Gates and other accounts were recruited, and Trump was "safe"
[Global News] According to a report on Fox News on the 15th, Twitter was massively invaded by hackers, including Bill Gates, Tesla CEO Musk, and former US Vice President Biden, Apple’s official Twitter and many other celebrities and Stroke in an enterprise account. Hacker and bitcoin related topics have rushed to the top search lists on Twitter. There is no news that Trump's Twitter account has been hacked.
Fox News reported that on the 15th local time, from the former Vice President Biden to the current head of a large company, many popular accounts on Twitter were hacked and published a tweet to raise Bitcoin donations . Fox News reported that someone posted a tweet on the 15th saying, "I am giving back to the community. All bitcoins sent to the following address will be doubled back! If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000. Only Do it for 30 minutes. Then, these tweets are attached to the relevant code of the Bitcoin wallet."
Fox reported that business leaders including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg shared these tweets, which were later deleted. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama also retweeted the news on Twitter.
According to the report, a Bill Gates spokesperson has confirmed that "he himself did not send this tweet." "We can be sure that this tweet was not sent by Bill Gates." The spokesperson said, "This It seems to be part of Twitter's bigger problems. Twitter has realized and is working hard to restore his account."
Tyler Winklevoss, CEO of the US "Gemini" exchange and technology investor, said that cryptocurrency-related accounts including "Gemini", Coinbase, Binance, and CoinDesk were also hacked And sent tweets related to fraud. "Don't click the link!" Winklevos warned.
As of now, topics related to "hackers" and "Bitcoin" have rushed to the Twitter hot search list, causing netizens to discuss.