Apple, Musk, Gates, Bezos, Kanye, Kim Kardashian and Others Hacked On Twitter to Steal Users Bitcoin

Something normal happened on Twitter earlier this afternoon. Someone claiming to be Elon Musk started tweeting an obvious scam to entice his loyal bootlickers to send bitcoin to a random cryptocurrency wallet. 

This happens all the time, but the strange thing about today was that the tweets were coming from Musk’s verified account. And nearly identical tweets were coming from accounts of people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Warren Buffett, every major crypto-exchange, and I’m quickly losing track of all of ‘em.

This is obviously the result of a Twitter hack the likes of which we’ve never seen before. A spokesperson for the social network told pressmen that they are aware of the situation and will issue a statement shortly, which they did right before publication.

The hackers appear to be using a number of different wallets but the address being used on tweets from Musk and Gates has received around $59,000 worth of bitcoin so far.

Associated Press