Breaking News
The Twitter accounts of some of the most high-profile celebs, politicians and business leaders around have been hacked … and it appears it’s all part of a massive Bitcoin scam.
The hack began Wednesday afternoon and is ongoing, but it seems to have started with Elon Musk. Around 4 PM ET, the Tesla founder’s Twitter account was seemingly compromised by a hacker … and it tweeted out a message asking users to send $1,000 to his Bitcoin address and they’d get $2k in return.
Shortly afterward, Bill Gates‘ account tweeted out a similar message with the identical BTC address. The hacker or hackers are continuing to rack up victims by posting the scam on other accounts … including those of Kanye West, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Barack Obama and most recently, Kim Kardashian West.
Gates’ people were quick to respond to the hack, saying … “We can confirm that this tweet was not sent by Bill Gates. This appears to be part of a larger issue that Twitter is facing. Twitter is aware and working to restore the account.”
Some of the scam tweets are being deleted, but then follow-up tweets are going up just as quickly … or popping up elsewhere.
Stay tuned for more …