Tough day for Twitter

[Softball Bat]

Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened

- Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO)



:)





Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam.
The official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in the cryptocurrency.
"Everyone is asking me to give back," a tweet from Mr Gates' account said. "You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000."
"Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened," tweeted CEO Jack Dorsey late on Wednesday.
"We're diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened," said Mr Dorsey.
Earlier, Twitter took the extraordinary step of stopping many verified accounts marked with blue ticks from tweeting altogether...


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822






Shit happens.

[Innocent Bystander]

Fake hack, with a touch of money laundering. Twitter claims social engineering hack. There was social engineering alright, but it wasn't a phishing scam. Not the initial one, at least.