https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
By Brian Krebs
Krebs on Security
July 16, 2020
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the
world’s most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities
starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack
happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing
access to internal Twitter administrative tools. This post is an attempt
to lay out some of the timeline of this attack, and point to clues about
who may have been behind it.
The first public signs of the intrusion came around 3 PM EST, when the
Twitter account for the cryptocurrency exchange Binance tweeted a message
saying it had partnered with “CryptoForHealth” to give back 5000 bitcoin
to the community, with a link where people could donate or send money.
Minutes after that, similar tweets went out from the accounts of other
cryptocurrency exchanges, and from the Twitter accounts for democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, President Barack
Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
investment mogul Warren Buffet.
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