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Jyoti Singh
Jul 16, 2020
by Jyoti Singh

Twitter Believes “Coordinated Social Engineering Attack” Traps Prominent Users

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Twitter has claimed that Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Barack Obama and other famous tech executives, entertainers and politicians became the victim of “Coordinated Social Engineering Attack” on July 15.

It further has mentioned that the hackers compromised the account of several prominent users on Twitter to stimulate the fake Bitcoin giveaways. 

Twitter’s Investigation Is On

Twitter has started its investigation and seeking what other malicious activities the hackers would have employes or what kind of data they have stolen from the users.

While informing its users, @TwitterSupport account of twitter, stated, “We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools”.

It further mentioned that the scammers gained the access of many of the prominent users’ account, which included the verified accounts too, and tweeted on their behalf.

Soon after the hacking, Twitter locked all the compromised accounts, it has notified that it would not restore them till it gets the surety about the account’s security.

Twitter Locks Account Of Users

On July 15, after getting access to Mr. Biden and Mr. Gates’ account, the hackers tweeted and ask their followers to send $1,000. In the tweet, which was on behalf of the prominent personalities, the hackers mentioned that as soon as they would receive the money, they will respond back by sending $2,000.

However, after some time, the tweet was deleted, now it is not available on the users’ account.

It is to be noted that a similar kind of tweet has been posted from the former US President’s account. The hacker claimed using Obama’s account told the users that he was giving away Bitcoin because of the increasing COVID-19 pandemic. He promised the users that if they would send the Bitcoin to the particular address then he will return back them in double.

After the Twitter accounts were hacked, the social media platform ceased their operations so that it could find the source of this issue. But then on July 15’s night, it restored the functionality of some of the verified accounts.

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    Jyoti Singh
    Jyoti is a graduate from GGSIPU and has done her PG Diploma in English Journalism from IIMC. Presently, she is working as a content writer with Agio Support Solution Pvt. Ltd. Her aim is to provide informative content about cryptocurrency and blockchain, to the tech-enthusiasts.

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