Twitter has reportedly been hacked.
VIP accounts including but not limited to Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple have been taken over by hackers to spread Bitcoin related scam. Tweets from some of those VIPs can be seen below:
The Bitcoin wallet that is being used by attackers is bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh and a number of people have fallen prey to this scam by sending millions of dollars in BTC to the hackers. Current status of this wallet can be seen below:
In response to this massive hack, the Team Lead for Twitter’s Application Security has resigned from his post saying “Today I’m glad I’m no longer the tech lead for Twitter’s Application Security team anymore. Trying to deal with an incident with 300 million people watching is not fun.”
It is suspected that the hackers had paid a Twitter employee to provide them with inside access which lead to this massive breach.
Attackers have also posted images of Twitter’s internal tool for managing Twitter profiles:
We will keep you updated as this is a developing story.
Stay tuned!
Poor hackers!!