One of the worst world hacks just occurred on the 15th of July 2020.
Coinbase, Elon musk, Cz binance, Gemini , Jeff bezos, uber, Kayne west and apple accounts was reported to be hacked with the aim to dupe Bitcoin users out of their cryptocurrency to seek bitcoin donation.
Crypto currency Scammers have been known to use this method to kajol Bitcoin owners into sending crypto to a wallet address.
Millions were scammed into sending their bitcoin in hopes of doubling their money in a tweets which urge people to send money to a Bitcoin address, $113,000 has been sent so far
Elon musk the CEO of SpaceX and a major Bitcoin holder, was not spared in this case. Elon Musk pinned a tweet to his twitter page around 4:17pm and it was about doubling of any bitcoin transcation being sent to him.
Apple account was also not spared.
It was said that musk’s account contained 3.64 Bitcoins, worth $34,498 at the time of writing. Prior to Musk’s account being hacked, the wallet had only received 0.6527 Bitcoins from random users who believed it was him using the account after being posted on the hacked accounts for exchanges.
Although the tweet have been deleted and another uploaded about the attack ongoing on these accounts.
What if the hacking was actually done deliberately ?
This question is yet to be answered by Twitter as we unravel the mystery behind this.
This is greatly terrific, a lot of people will be be ripped off their money