Twitter Collaborates With FBI To Investigate Account Hacking Incident Of Bill Gates Cs

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JAKARTA - Twitter is collaborating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the hacking incident of world famous Twitter accounts yesterday, Wednesday, July 17. Where these accounts fall victim to cryptocurrency spamming attacks.

Reported by The Verge, the hack has caused serious concern among United States lawmakers, with some fear that weaknesses like this in social media could be exploited by malicious actors in coordinated attacks aimed at causing chaos among communities.

"We are aware of a security incident today involving several Twitter accounts belonging to high-profile individuals. These accounts appear to have been compromised to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud," said an official statement from the FBI, Friday, July 17.

Previously known, several accounts of world celebrities and technology figures such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, even former US President Barack Obama were taken over by hackers and hackers posted tweets asking for donations via Bitcoin on their account.

"Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time. By sending $ 1,000, I'm sending you $ 2,000 back. I promise to double all payments to Bitcoin addresses over the next 30 minutes," the hacker tweeted on Bill's Twitter account. Gates and others.

Knowing this, Twitter is trying to remove fraudulent messages. But hackers seem to have control over the situation as they can go back into the account and repost messages.

We want to share some more specific updates coming out of the second day of our investigations.

- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 17, 2020

Ultimately, Twitter disabled the ability for verified accounts to post tweets. Twitter has also successfully investigated what is believed to be, "a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools."

"We are looking for what malicious activity they may be doing or the information they may access and will share as much here as we have," Twitter said in an official statement.

Meanwhile, several US politicians also asked Twitter questions about President Donald Trump's account, it was immediately confirmed by the White House that Trump's Twitter account was safe from being touched by hackers.