# Several High Profile Twitter Accounts Including Those of Bill Gates and Elon Musk Have Been Hijacked To Tweet Bitcoin Scams 

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**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/several-high-profile-twitter-accounts-including-those-of-bill-gates-and-elon-musk-have-been-hijacked-to-tweet-bitcoin-scams/96319 "2020-07-15T21:34:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/several-high-profile-twitter-accounts-including-those-of-bill-gates-and-elon-musk-have-been-hijacked-to-tweet-bitcoin-scams/96319/1 "2020-07-15T21:34:49Z")

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Security researcher Marcus Hutchins [reports](https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/1283496375167025152):

_A bunch of high profile cryptocurrency Twitter accounts have been hijacked to tweet bitcoin scams. Likely a 3rd party App compromise rather that Twitter itself._ People / organizations whose accounts appear to have been hijacked include Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Binance, Apple, Cash app, and Ripple. Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of cryptocurrency market Gemini, offered an explanation in a tweet: “ALL MAJOR CRYPTO TWITTER ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED.”

TechCrunch [reports](https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/twitter-accounts-hacked-crypto-scam/): _These kinds of scams are common. Scammers take over high-profile Twitter accounts using breached or leaked passwords and post messages that encourage users to post their cryptocurrency funds to a particular address under the guise that they’ll double their “investment.” In reality, it’s simple theft, but it’s a scam that works. By the time of writing, the blockchain address used on the scam site had already collected 2.8 bitcoin – some $25,700 in today’s currency – and it’s going up by the minute._

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**Author:** ![Goody](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/goody/32/23317_2.png) [@Goody](https://onehack.st/u/Goody)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/several-high-profile-twitter-accounts-including-those-of-bill-gates-and-elon-musk-have-been-hijacked-to-tweet-bitcoin-scams/96319/2 "2020-07-16T10:08:48Z")

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