Tracking the bitcoin from the Twitter account hack

InstitutionalJuly 27, 2020, 7:38AM EDT
UPDATED: March 10, 2022, 3:22PM EST
Tracking the bitcoin from the Twitter account hack
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On July 15, Twitter suffered a ‘hack’ as the result of a coordinated social engineering attack, throughout which hackers posted unauthorized tweets from as many as 130 compromised Twitter accounts.

The accounts in question — which included the likes of former U.S. president Barack Obama, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and entrepreneur Elon Musk — were used to post bitcoin giveaway scams.

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