Security News > 2020 > July > Several High-Profile Accounts Hacked in the Biggest Twitter Hack of All Time

A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously in what's a far-reaching hacking campaign carried out to promote a cryptocurrency scam.

Following the tweets, the accounts for Apple, Uber, Mike Bloomberg, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all posted tweets soliciting bitcoins using the exact same Bitcoin address as the one included on the CryptoForHealth website.

Although the tweets from the compromised accounts have been deleted, Twitter took the extraordinary step of temporarily stopping many verified accounts marked with blue ticks from tweeting altogether.

Account hijacks on Twitter have happened before, but this is the first time it's happened at such an unprecedented scale on the social network, leading to speculations that hackers grabbed control of a Twitter employee's administrative access to "Take over a prominent account and tweet on their behalf" without having to deal with their passwords or two-factor authentication codes.

Last year, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey's account was hacked in a SIM swapping attack, allowing an unauthorized third-party to post tweets via text messages from the phone number.

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