'Bitcoin Twitter hack' targets accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple and Uber

Ted Johnson A 17-year-old was arrested on Friday for being the “mastermind” behind the July 15 hack of the Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and other high-profile figures.Graham Ivan Clark, of Tampa, was arrested early in the day on allegations that he orchestrated a scheme to “steal the identities of prominent people,” then posted messages in their names directing people to send Bitcoin to accounts associated with him, according to Andrew Warren, state attorney

The communications lines are still down between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, after a roller coaster week where he went on several Twitter rants about his wife and her family, while she explained he was having a bipolar episode. The 39-year-old reality star is holed up at home in Hidden Hills, CA, with her mom Kris Jenner, 64, and sister Kendall Jenner, 24, there to provide support for the mother of four.

Kris Jenner ignored her son-in-law Kanye West’s jibes about her during his Twitter rant as she broke her silence on social media.

After back-to-back days focused on his political career, Kanye West said he’s going to spend some time focusing on music, teasing the release of a new album later this week. West switched gears late Monday night to reveal to his followers that he’s taking a brief break from his newly announced 2020 presidential campaign to spend some time getting an album together that he says will drop this week.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe Twitter hackers behind the unprecedented coordinated July 15 attack on high-profile accounts of multiple celebrities, politicians, tech titans and Silicon Valley companies went after about 130 separate accounts, the company said late Thursday.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerTwitter was scrambling today to contain the fallout from a major embarrassment, as the accounts of such prominent people as Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Barack Obama all were victimized by a bitcoin scam that promised the unwary a chance to double their money.Fortunately, Trevor Noah somehow avoided the hack to his account, even though he’s famous.

Twitter temporarily suspended verified accounts from posting on the platform following a cryptocurrency scam that targeted several high-profile users, including Elon Musk and Bill Gates as well as Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kanye West and several company accounts, including Apple and Square's Cash App, among others."We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it.

Every blue-check verified account was blocked from tweeting - and while some rejoiced in this fact and made light of it, the situation was more serious. Criminals had targeted Twitter with an unprecedented Bitcoin scam, infiltrating scores of celebrity accounts.

Kanye West, Elon Musk, former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, as well as official accounts for Apple, Amazon and Uber were all targeted.The tweets in question saw the celebrities and businesses tweeting an old-fashioned scam, getting fans to donate to a Bitcoin account, and saying they’ll double whatever is paid into the account.Though many of the tweets were deleted just minutes after being posted, and Twitter said it was “aware of a security incident” and “taking steps to

here“If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000!“Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy.”Bill Gates, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos were among those targeted.Kanye West’s account was hacked twice in the space of an hour with the same message posted.Apple, Uber and other company accounts were also hacked.Most of the tweets have been deleted, but some have been retweeted thousands of times.Twitter said: “We detected what we believe to be a

Twitter temporarily suspended verified accounts from posting on the platform following a cryptocurrency scam that targeted several high-profile users, including Elon Musk and Bill Gates as well as Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kanye West and several company accounts, including Apple and Square's Cash App, among others."We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it.

High-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Kanye West, have been hacked as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticWhen the feeds of some of the most high-profile people in the world are hacked, your internal systems are undermined and your stock takes a 4% drop, “tough day” may be a severe understatement.Yet, that is what Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said today after Joe Biden, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos, ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates plus the corporate feeds of Apple and saw their accounts taken over for a spell on