Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday and posted tweets that appeared to promote a cryptocurrency scam.
The chaos began when Elon Musk’s Twitter account was seemingly compromised by a hacker intent on using it to run the scam.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ account was also seemingly accessed by the same scammer, who posted a similar message with an identical bitcoin wallet address.
Both accounts continued to post new tweets promoting the scam almost as fast as they were deleted, and Musk’s account in particular appears to still be under the control of the hacker as of 5:56PM ET.
Accounts of Apple, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and others were also hacked in quick succession.
Twitter acknowledged the situation after more than an hour of silence, writing on its support account, “We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly.” In reaction to the incident,
Nigerians took to Twitter to make cyber-fraud jokes about alleged internet fraudster Hushpuppi and his connection or (lack thereof) to the hack.
See some reactions from Nigerians to the Twitter hacks below:
Hushpuppi’s IT students out here dealing with Bill Gates, Elon Musk and co.
— Zoba (@utdzky) July 15, 2020
Hushpuppi sent from Dubai to the US & suddenly Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Obama & so on are getting hacked through a Bitcoin Scam. You can silence the Big Dog, but you might not be able to Hush Puppy pic.twitter.com/bH1iScOXD2
— King Nonny 👑 (@Zaddy_nomso) July 15, 2020
They just pulled a hushpuppi on Elon musk & Bill Gates.
The hackers already made 33k dollars in 7 minuets 😲🙆🏿 pic.twitter.com/PyXThxYAvh— VECHILZ ✪ (@Vechiallen) July 15, 2020
Hushpuppi when FBI interrogates him about Bill Gates, Elon Musk and other Twitter hacks.pic.twitter.com/aM3yxBqbus
— Omoniyi Israel (@__Omoissy) July 15, 2020
Hushpuppi: See I’m inside here and they’ve scammed you people of one Billion Trillion Dollars from Bill gates and Elon Musk page, see I’m innocent nau
— Obong Roviel 👑 (@ObongRoviel) July 15, 2020
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