Hackers breach a hots of high-profile
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) accounts, including Elon Musk and Bill Gates this afternoon, enticing people to send Bitcoin.
The message tweeted via Gates' account reads: “Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time. I am doubling all payments sent to my BTC address for the next 30 minutes. You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.
"It then provided a BTC address, adding “Only going on for 30 minutes! Enjoy!”
The accounts of
Kanye West,
Uber and
Apple were also hacked.
The account listed in the hack has
received $107K.
The tweets have since been deleted. Other accounts were also targeted,
CNBC reports.
Twitter is -2.3% postmarket.