Obama, Jeff Bezos and other Prominent US figures hacked on Twitter

Former US President Barrack Obama is among prominent individuals in the US whose Twitter handles have been hacked by online Bitcoin scammers. Others whose accounts have been hacked are former US Vice President and the Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Bidden, billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

Everyone is asking me to give back,” a tweet from Mr Gates’ account said. “You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”

“Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened,” tweeted CEO Jack Dorsey late on Wednesday.

“We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened,” said Mr Dorsey.

Earlier, Twitter took the extraordinary step of stopping many verified accounts marked with blue ticks from tweeting altogether.

Password reset requests were also being denied and some other “account functions” disabled.

By 20:30 EDT (00:30 GMT Thursday) users with verified account started to be able to send tweets again, but Twitter said it was still working on a fix.

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