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Twitter Account Compromise

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Incident Overview

In the early hours of this morning, many celebrity politicians and some companies' Twitter accounts were attacked by hackers, and these Twitter accounts all published relevant digital currency phishing scam information. However, the phishing information was deleted a few minutes after it was posted. As of now, the scammers have received 12.86 bitcoins in total.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/science-53429460 (opens in a new tab)

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