The list of concurrently commanded accounts developed rapidly to include Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Uber, co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, specialist Bitcoin firms, and many others.Posts, which were largely deleted, were fired off from the array of high-profile accounts telling people that they had 30 minutes to send US$ 1,000 (RM4,250) in bitcoin for twice as much return.
"This is a SCAM, DO NOT participate!" Gemini's co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Cameron Winklevoss warned in a tweet from his official Twitter account.Comments and posts on Twitter suggested thousands of dollars might have been sent to the digital account of scammers in bitcoin.
"Given the accounts that have been hacked more recently (Apple, Uber, Gates, Musk, etc.), I'm now leaning toward this being an internal Twitter system compromise, not an API attack from a social aggregator service," said Bitcoin authority and author Andreas Antonopoulos in a tweet from his @aantonop account.
According to his twin brother and co-founder Tyler Winklevoss, among the compromised accounts was @gemini used by the crypto-exchange. "Facebook account@Gemini has been compromised along with a number of other crypto twitter accounts," Tyler Winklevoss said on a tweet.