{"id":42841,"date":"2020-07-16T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=42841"},"modified":"2020-07-16T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:58:46","slug":"celebrity-accounts-frozen-following-major-social-media-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/celebrity-accounts-frozen-following-major-social-media-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Accounts Frozen Following Major Social Media Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Twitter has reportedly locked all verified accounts after some of the platform\u2019s biggest users were hacked as part of a Bitcoin scam.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/technology\/kanye-west-and-elon-musks-twitter-accounts-hacked-in-bitcoin-scam-targeting-celebrities\/news-story\/bf974c886ff87f5eeab7e3a2b97175c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to News Ltd<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Telsa boss Elon Musk, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and rapper Kanye West were three of the many accounts hacked by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin in the hope of doubling their money.<\/p><p>Twitter posts, which have been deleted, were fired off from an array of high-profile accounts telling people they had 30 minutes to send $US1,000 in bitcoin in order to be sent back twice as much.<\/p><p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former US President Barack Obama and his former Vice President Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, billionaire Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg and tech accounts including Apple and Uber were also victims of the scam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bezos-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bezos-tweet.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bezos-tweet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bezos-tweet-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bezos-tweet-267x200.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You may be unable to Tweet or reset your password while we review and address this incident.<\/p>&mdash; Support (@Support) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Support\/status\/1283526400146837511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has reportedly locked all verified accounts after some of the platform\u2019s biggest users were hacked as part of a Bitcoin scam. 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