The Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president; former President Barack Obama; and at least three tech bigwigs — Tesla’s Elon Musk, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — were hacked in a massive digital currency scam on Wednesday. Biden’s and Gates’ account posted a similar message, telling followers: “If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000.”Twitter Joe Biden's Twitter account was apparently hacked on Wednesday. Bezos’ account also vowed to double payments sent to his BTC address. Crypto scammers hack Elon Musk, Biden, Obama, and Kanye on Twitter@TwitterSupport says "We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. It added that it “immediately locked down the affected accounts” and later limited access to the platform “for a much larger group of accounts,” including all verified accounts.

Source: Huffington Post July 15, 2020 21:54 UTC