The verified accounts of some prominent leaders, music icons and top influencers were earlier today, July 16, allegedly hacked by Bitcoin fraudsters. Some of the twitter accounts were those belonging to former U.S president Barack Obama, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, U.S presidential candidate Joe Biden and billionaire Elon Musk.
Other affected accounts are those belonging to Kanye West, Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, and the business accounts for Apple Inc. and Uber.
While reacting to this major security breach, Twitter disclosed that hackers gained access to its internal systems to hijack some of this accounts and used them to solicit for Cryptocurrency.
The online social media networking company further stated that in line with its crisis management procedures, it has temproary blocked all verified accounts from publishing messages pending when the issue is adequately resolved.
According to available records, the alleged scammers got more than $110,000 worth of cryptocurrency from about 300 people.