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Why Gates, Musk & others' accounts were hacked in Bitcoin scam

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Why Gates, Musk & others' accounts were hacked in Bitcoin scam

Why Gates, Musk & others' accounts were hacked in Bitcoin scam

Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & others were hacked by scammers on 15 July.

The handles sent out tweets with an address linked to an apparent Bitcoin scam.

The tweets promised to double the money sent by anyone within 30 minutes.

Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kanye West, Uber & Apple also posted similar tweets.

Twitter immediately responded saying they were ā€˜investigatingā€™ and taking steps to fix itā€™.

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