The Twitter accounts of Billionaires, Bill Gates and Elon Musk were apparently hacked on Wednesday by scammers promoting crypto scams.
The
attack also targeted accounts belonging to CoinDesk, Binance, Ripple,
Gemini, and other figures who are well-known in the cryptocurrency
world.
Some of the messages were removed
soon after being posted, with executives of affected companies tweeting
out warnings not to fall for the scams.
The Tesla CEO’s account issued a mysterious tweet this afternoon reading,“I‘m feeling generous because of Covid-19. I’ll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour. Good luck, and stay safe out there!” The tweet also contained a bitcoin address, presumably one associated with the hacker’s crypto wallet.
“Feeling grateful doubling all payments sent to my BTC address! You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes,” it read before also getting deleted.The tweet posted to Gates’ account echoed the last Musk tweet, with an identical BTC address attached. It was also deleted shortly after posting.
Co-founder of Gemini, Cameron Winklevoss, whose company’s Twitter was also compromised by the hackers, said they are investigating the crime.
He wrote on Twitter:
ALL MAJOR CRYPTO TWITTER ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED.
2FA / strong password was used for @Gemini
account. We are investigating and hope to have more information shortly.
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