TIL Desk/Business/San Francisco/ A number of high profile Twitter accounts including that of United States presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Former President Barack Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and of Apple were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers to carry out what appeared to be a cryptocurrency scam.
According to Reports, the Tesla CEO’s account issued a strange tweet at 4.17 pm ET this afternoon reading, ‘I’m feeling generous because of Covid-19. I’ll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour. Good luck, and stay safe out there!’
The tweet also contained a bitcoin address, presumably one associated with the hacker’s crypto wallet. The tweet was then deleted and replaced by another one more plainly laying out the fake promotion. ‘Feeling grateful doubling all payments sent to my BTC address! You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes,’ it read before also getting deleted.

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