Warning: crypto related twitter accounts (Binance, Bitcoin, TRON, &more) hacked

[tomahawk9]

Careful!! very likely this is a SCAM. Do not click the link in those tweets and do not send any funds nor accept anything from that site.

EDIT* website is getting blacklisted/flagged . Avast and other antivirus softwares now detect it as a phishing website.

Bill gates, Elon Musk, Cashapp, and many other twitter accounts got hacked too

news: https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-bitcoin-crypto-cashapp-gates-ripple-coindesk-twitter-scam-links-2020-7








edit* bitcoin and bitfinex too!?



Coinbase had the same tweet but it was quickly deleted

[gentlemand]

It's a pretty darned impressive haul. It's a big list of notable crypto Twitter accounts including all the major exchanges, Charlie Lee, Coindesk and even @bitcoin.

I wonder what hole all of them left open.

[Leviathan.007]

Since these are phishing attacks. Please do not click the links provided on the hacked twitter accounts and report the accounts if you can, in order to avoid newbies get involved.
I believe they were cracking the accounts since months ago and collected the passwords in order to use all the account once and by doing so they are maybe trying to collapse the market.

[tomahawk9]

Bill gates, Elon Musk, Cashapp, and many other twitter accounts got hacked too and are using the same bitcoin address used for the scam posted above. Crazy stuff!!

Probably a major vulnerability on twitter or a twitter API.

[lolxxxx]

How this actually happened any official announcement from anyone?

I wonder how many people got already affected by it as this is from all official accounts 

[Lamp2]

What's going to happen is that the Twitter accounts of the world's biggest exchanges have been hacked, isn't that an unbearable signal for crypto hunters? But I hope everything returns to normal as soon as possible. 

[FatFork]

Some BTC address that was published as part of the scam has already received over 5 BTC 12 BTC since the hacking of the twitter accounts. I can’t believe someone is still falling for such classic scams...

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

People, don't be naive! No one will send you back double.

[DaCryptoRaccoon]

Apple, Bill gates, Elon musk all hacked too.

If you allow 3rd party app's on your twitter you should revoke them ASAP but I think this is a full twitter breach I highly doubt this is just a 3rd party app and all these people used the same application seems very far fetched more possible is a twitter breach.

[DoublerHunter]

^ People now are begin think that they are not safe in twitter social media.
Do you think the fall of twitter begins here? People who was a victim will think always this way. Probably we can say, RIP twitter.
And now the BTC wallet address that used on this scam was about already 12.5 BTC and that is a huge amount of hack.
Nevertheless, let us do hope that the hacker will be able to trace and penalize by the authority.

[DarkDays]

I doubt their accounts were hacked directly.

Somebody either breached some third-party API posting service or the cell carrier these people used, hence resetting their 2FA methods.

Logically, if something was breached on Twitter's side, they would have just shut the whole site down rather than risk the fallout that's currently occuring.

Twitter shares have down 5% ATM despite doing well earlier today, so I guess investors aren't happy either way.

[livingfree]

This is massive, different personalities were being hacked and also the official twitter handlers were hacked too. Is there something with the twitter back-end and this was able to happen?

I'll wait what Jack Dorsey will say on this.

[FatFork]

I doubt their accounts were hacked directly.

Somebody either breached some third-party API posting service or the cell carrier these people used, hence resetting their 2FA methods.

Logically, if something was breached on Twitter's side, they would have just shut the whole site down rather than risk the fallout that's currently occuring.

Twitter shares have down 5% ATM despite doing well earlier today, so I guess investors aren't happy either way.

A lot of unconfirmed rumors that a twitter employee with access to the user management panel was hacked. But I find that hard to believe. I guess we’ll just have to wait for official announcements.

[sandra_x]

Scammers are on rampage, all out to defraud peoples especially those new to the space. Here is a similar scam giveaway on medium, also purported to be from Elon Musk.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5260213.msg54739397#msg54739397

[DarkDays]

I doubt their accounts were hacked directly.

Somebody either breached some third-party API posting service or the cell carrier these people used, hence resetting their 2FA methods.

Logically, if something was breached on Twitter's side, they would have just shut the whole site down rather than risk the fallout that's currently occuring.

Twitter shares have down 5% ATM despite doing well earlier today, so I guess investors aren't happy either way.

A lot of unconfirmed rumors that a twitter employee with access to the user management panel was hacked. But I find that hard to believe. I guess we’ll just have to wait for official announcements.

Whatever it is, it's almost certainly isolated to Twitter.

If it was the cell carrier that was hacked, then we would probably be seeing similar messages posted on Instagram and other popular social media channels.

Also, the fact that only certain accounts seem to be affected, indicates that the attacker is limited in whose account they can post from.

For example, Barack Obama (number 1 twitter user) was hacked. But Katy Perry and Justin Bieber (number 2 and 3) were not.

This indicates there is some commonalities between breached accounts. I suspect it was actually a third party API or their email provider.

[FatFork]

Finally some twitter reaction.

[stomachgrowls]

This is massive, different personalities were being hacked and also the official twitter handlers were hacked too. Is there something with the twitter back-end and this was able to happen?

I'll wait what Jack Dorsey will say on this.

When it comes to this kind of breaches then this is definitely on the back-end side.Hackers does really know on whose personality or company that they should target out.

~
Finally some twitter reaction.

Lets see on what would be their explanation into this matter.


This incident does really prove out that there are still some people who do believe with 2x return. 

[Oasisman]

This is such a massive account hacking to a high profile accounts, that even the personalities from the music industry was also included, and the political figures as well.
But, it's too dumb for the people to believe such fake generosity, that If you send Btc to a certain address it will return double. Most likely, a smart person's response would be like to confirm whether the tweet was legit or an account was being compromised by hackers.

This is going to have a bad impact on Twitter in general.

[Baofeng]

What the fuck just happened? This is a massive breached, or shall I shall heist at the highest level. Jack has a lot of explaining to do specially to those billionaires and them investors.

[Sadlife]

That's insane, how can he hacked multiple account is it more on the users to blame or the social media platform itself ?
I would understand if its just dummy accounts newly created but this and official accounts of the most renowned Crypto companies hacked. Its a miracle that no one got scammed at this point.

[Chakraball]

I smell a false flag here.

Accounts with millions of followers , Obama, Biden, Gates, Musk, Bezos involved. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bill-gates-elon-musk-twitter-accounts-hacked-nigerian-bitcoin-scam-over-53000-stolen

Who will be painted as the baddie here?

Yep you guessed it BITCOIN, criminals fleecing unsuspecting saps, it needs to be banned/brought under strict control will be the call all over the bought and paid for mainstream media