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2020 Twitter account hijacking. At least 130 accounts affected. The bitcoin addresses involved received about US$ 110,000 in bitcoin transactions. On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam.
Jul 16, 2020 · The FBI has launched an investigation after hackers hijacked Twitter accounts of a number of high-profile US figures in an apparent Bitcoin scam. "The accounts appear to have been...
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Jul 16, 2020 · Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe...
Jul 16, 2020 · Potentially thousands of people were scammed out of money after hijacked accounts of prominent verified users promised to double the money fans sent them in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
Twitter scammers collected 13 bitcoin amounting to about $110,000 after hacking high-profile accounts and posting fake donation links under victims' names, according to a public ledger.
Jul 15, 2020 · The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals were compromised on Wednesday in one of the most widespread and confounding breaches the platform has ever seen, all in service of...
Dec 19, 2021 · You can listen to the radio documentary about this investigation,'The Fake Bitcoin Mine' here: James Clayton is the BBC's Silicon Valley correspondent. His Twitter handle is @jamesclayton5....
