LOS ANGELES: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched an investigation after hackers hijacked Twitter accounts of a number of high-profile personalities in an apparent Bitcoin scam.
Twitter has revealed that 130 accounts of prominent personalities and organizations were targeted in a hack. According to Twitter, the hackers were able to gain control of a small number of accounts and send tweets from them.
The social media company added that it was continuing to assess whether hackers were able to access private data of the targeted accounts. Accounts of celebrities and political figures including Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama, and Elon Musk were hacked during the cyberattack earlier on Wednesday.
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Twitter reiterated that it was working with impacted account owners. The FBI’s San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking, it said in a statement on Thursday, as more Washington lawmakers called for an accounting of how it happened.
The high-profile accounts that were hacked also included rapper Kanye West, Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffett, and Uber Technologies.
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