Joe Biden, Obama, Kanye, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, And Bill Gates Twitter Accounts Were Hacked In A Bitcoin Scam

Verified Twitter accounts belonging to Former President Obama, Joe Biden, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, rapper Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg and Apple, Uber, and the Bitcoin.org were hacked on Wednesday to promote a Bitcoin scam.

The hack is the latest breach of high profile Twitter accounts and an evolution of a long-running scam that has persisted on the social network for the last two-and-a-half years. Since at least the start of 2018, scammers have created fake accounts mimicking Musk, President Donald Trump, and other celebrities to lure in unsuspecting individuals to send bitcoin or other forms of cryptocurrency with the promise that they’d have their money doubled or tripled in return.

A Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the issue was “being looked into.” Tweets promoting the scam continued to persist across various verified accounts on Wednesday afternoon.