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		</div><p>High-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Kanye West, have been hacked as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam.</p>
<p>The accounts, which have large Twitter followings, were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday evening and a message posted encouraging users to send $1,000 dollars (€877) to a Bitcoin address.</p>
<p>In return, users are promised that their money will be doubled and returned to them.</p>
<p>Founder Jack Dorsey said: “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far:</p>
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<p>The hack message read: “I am giving back to my community due to Covid-19! All Bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled.</p>
<p>“If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000!</p>
<p>“Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy.”</p>
<p>Targeted accounts included Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.</p>
<p>Kanye West’s account was hacked twice in the space of an hour with the same message posted.</p>
<p>A number of company accounts, including that of Apple and Uber, were also hacked with the message posted.</p>
<p>Most of the tweets were deleted within a number of minutes, but many had been retweeted thousands of times.</p>
<p>Twitter said: “We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”</p>
<p>Users reported that those with verified accounts, marked by a blue tick, could not send tweets for a brief period – with those who tried shown an error message reading: “Something went wrong, but don’t fret – let’s give it another shot”.</p>
<p>The hacked messages were posted after several high-profile cryptocurrency companies’ Twitter accounts shared malicious links earlier on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Tyler Winklevoss, who founded cryptocurrency company Gemini alongside brother Cameron, tweeted earlier today: “WARNING: @Gemini’s twitter account, along with a number of other crypto twitter accounts, has been hacked.</p>
<p>“This has resulted in @Gemini, @Coinbase, @Binance, and @Coindesk, tweeting about a scam partnership with CryptoForHealth. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK! These tweets are SCAMS.”</p>
<p>His brother Cameron added: “ALL MAJOR CRYPTO TWITTER ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED.</p>
<p>“2FA / strong password was used for @Gemini account. We are investigating and hope to have more information shortly.”</p>
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