China News Service, July 16th, comprehensive report, on the 15th local time, the social media platform "Twitter" was attacked by hackers, and many celebrity user accounts on the platform were hacked. The parties involved include the US Democratic presidential candidate Biden, former President Obama, billionaire Musk, Bill Gates, etc.

Former US President Barack Obama’s social media account “Twitter” was suspected of being hacked and published false information about Bitcoin. (Picture taken from Obama's social media account)

  According to reports, the account of Tesla founder Musk was the first celebrity account to be compromised. After the account was compromised, at least 3 news about Bitcoin scams were published.

  Later, the account of Microsoft founder Bill Gates was also compromised, and a similar message was released. However, the related tweets were soon deleted. A Gates spokesperson said, "We can confirm that this tweet was not from Bill Gates."

  According to reports, not long after the accounts of Gates and Musk were hacked, the accounts of celebrities such as former US President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate Biden, Amazon CEO Bezos, and hip-hop singer Kanye were also hacked and began Promote this scam.

  According to the public bitcoin transaction information, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) found that some people listened to the content of the tweet and completed more than 200 transfers from the link address in the tweet, involving more than 115,000 US dollars.

  Later, "Twitter" confirmed the hacking of celebrity accounts, and said it was working hard to resolve a "security incident."

  The company said, "We are aware that a security incident is affecting Twitter accounts." "We are investigating and amending it and will update each user in a short period of time."