Hackers Take Over Verified Twitter Accounts of Bezos, Gates, Musk, Obama, and Others In Crypto Scam.

Hackers gained access to the Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and many others on Wednesday evening in an apparent cryptocurrency giveaway scam. Other accounts including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Apple, Uber, and Square’s CashApp were also hacked.

Twitter Support account said that the hacking of several high-profile accounts was a “coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”

We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly.

— Support (@Support) July 15, 2020

We know they used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf. We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it.

— Support (@Support) July 16, 2020

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, stated that his team mates were working hard to make things right, and will will share everything they can when they have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.

Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.

We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.

💙 to our teammates working hard to make this right.

— jack (@jack) July 16, 2020

Below are tweets posted from the various twitter accounts hacked;