Jeff Bezos’s hacked Twitter account sends messages asking for Bitcoin donations

[whohit]Jeff Bezos’s hacked Twitter account sends messages asking for Bitcoin donations[/whohit]Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama or Elon Musk were among the victims of the four-hour attack on Wednesday afternoon that saw hackers infiltrate Twitter’s internal systems and post bogus tweets from the high profile accounts asking people to send bitcoin. 

The scammers received more than $116,000 worth of cryptocurrency, which equates to 12.8 bitcoin, from over 300 people over the four-hour stretch, according to blockchain records. 

Here you can view the Tweet published by Jeff Bezos, soliciting Bitcoin donations which generated thousands of likes, retweets and hundreds of comments:

A day on from the breach, which resulted in Twitter stopping all verified accounts from tweeting or resetting their passwords for hours as they tried to contain it, they have still not revealed how it happened or to what extent its internal systems were compromised.  

The fraudulent tweets all followed a similar formula, and directed potential victims to send bitcoin to the same anonymous wallet.

Although many users knew the gesture was the working of a cybercriminal, others replied they sent money to the listed account. Many Twitter users posted screenshots of bitcoin transfer receipts to the wallet listed in the scam, claiming they had been duped before realizing the scam. 

US lawmakers are now demanding an explanation from Twitter.