Hackers attacked social media accounts of celebrities
Public personalities such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, among others, were attacked on social networks, where delinquents requested funds in cryptocurrencies with the promise of forwarding profits
Several celebrity accounts, such as the case of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple, among others, were attacked in order to scam their followers with cryptocurrencies.
Hackers offered through these accounts to send high rewards to those users who send specific amounts in bitcoins.
According to published information, the attackers have received at least $ 110,000 in cryptocurrencies.
In the case of Musk and Gates, hackers mentioned that transferring $ 1,000 would return $ 2,000. However, in Apple, Uber and Jeff Bezos publications you could pay any amount and they would “pay you back” twice.
According to several users, this problem could fall into the hands of Twitter. The reason is that the account of an employee of the social network would have been compromised and this led to the attack Celebrity accounts were hacked
K. Tovar
Source: Hipertextual
