Transfer me the money and he ll send you back twice as much, said Gates, Musk, Obama and Apple at the same time. It was a scam
There has never been such a scam in Twitter history. The breach of portal security meant that less attentive Internet users could lose a lot of money. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the Twitter accounts of technology giants and politicians began to send their followers the same appeal to transfer bitcoins to their account. The well-known and powerful of this world promised everyone that if only the people who followed them hurry up, they would receive a double amount in response to such a transfer. In their posts, characters such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and people allegedly maintaining official profiles of companies such as Apple and Uber, as well as many other accounts, argued that it was time to share the property with the people. Such bitcoin doubling on Twitter is, unfortunately, suspicious crap and the result of the attack. We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. W...