Security News > 2020 > July > Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack?

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams.

Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to internal Twitter administrative tools.

Similar tweets went out from the accounts of other cryptocurrency exchanges, and from the Twitter accounts for democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, President Barack Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and investment mogul Warren Buffett.

In a post on OGusers - a forum dedicated to account hijacking - a user named "Chaewon" advertised they could change email address tied to any Twitter account for $250, and provide direct access to accounts for between $2,000 and $3,000 apiece.

This individual, the source said, was a key participant in a group of SIM swappers that adopted the nickname "ChucklingSquad," and was thought to be behind the hijacking of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account last year.

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