Twitter accounts of many renowned personalities including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama hacked

• Accounts of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, Famous Investor Warren Buffet are also hacked.
• Expert says if the hackers get access to Dm’s they can blackmail people.
Twitter accounts of several personalities and Companies including, Bill Gates Co-Founder of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon, Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, and Former President of USA Barack Obama were hacked on Wednesday. Companies like Apple and Uber were also targeted. Hackers resorted to big names for crypto currency fraud.
List of hacked accounts:
Bill Gates (Co-Founder, Microsoft)
Jeff Bezos (CEO, Amazon)
Warren Beff (Famous Investor)
Elon Musk (CEO, Tesla)
Barack Obama (Former US President)
Joe Biden (Former Vice President of America)
Kim Kardashian West (Media Celebrity)
Mike Bloomberg (Businessman, Politician)
Kanye West (Singer)
Apple (Iphone Company)
Uber (Cab Service)
Hackers intended a Crypto currency fraud in names of big personalities and companies. Hackers posted a message on the hacked twitter accounts promising to help people. They asked them to transfer bitcoins into their accounts and in return they will be transferring double dollar value of the bitcoins received.
According to blackchain.com, website that monitors crypto currency transactions, Bitcoins worth $1.16 lakh were already transferred to the fraud account whose link was shared through hacked accounts before they found out.
Theresa Payton, CEO of cyber security company Fortalis Solutions says, they’re not sure how much information is stolen. If the hackers get access to direct messages then they can blackmail people. They can also cause trouble in the upcoming elections or any other big Events this year. The follower counts of hacked accounts are in billions.
Jack Darcy, CEO Twitter tweeted, “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened…” Twitter has currently disabled all hacked accounts and removed fraud tweets.
Last year in August, Jack Darcy’s account was also hacked and hackers tried to spread racism and hate.