« We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it. »
Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including U. S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U. S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital currency.
Twitter said employees with access to its internal systems had been successfully targeted by hackers who “used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf.”
“We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it,” the company said.
Twitter temporarily took the extraordinary step of preventing for several hours at least some verified accounts from publishing messages altogether. It said it would restore access only when it was certain it could do so securely.
Publicly available blockchain records show the apparent scammers received more than $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
