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On July 15th, multiple verified Twitter accounts associated with public figures and companies were hijacked and tweeted out a bitcoin scam. Several accounts impacted by the breach include Apple, President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, rapper Kanye West, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and Uber.
The takeovers lasted more than two hours, and Twitter took extreme measures to prevent other verified accounts from being compromised, such as disabling the ability for some users to send new tweets and locking some users out of their accounts.
Twitter is continuing to look into the incident, and the FBI has launched its own investigation, so there’s sure to be more news about the unprecedented attack on the social media platform. Follow along with all of the latest updates in our StoryStream below.
- Sep 3, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC
You can now download your Twitter data again and see what hackers could’ve nabbed
Twitter had shut off ‘Your Twitter Data’ as a precaution
- Sep 2, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC
Twitter hack conspirators may include a 16-year-old from Massachusetts
The teen joins 17-year-old Graham Clark, the supposed mastermind, as the two youngest conspirators
By Nick Statt
- Aug 5, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC
Alleged Twitter teen hacker’s hearing got zoombombed big time
You ruined it for everyone
- Aug 3, 2020, 10:50 AM UTC
Go read this investigation into the troubled past of alleged Twitter hacker
From Minecraft scams to the biggest hack in Twitter’s history
By Jon Porter
- Jul 31, 2020, 11:08 PM UTC
Three people have been charged for Twitter’s huge hack, and a Florida teen is in jail
Update: The Tampa teen allegedly pretended to work for Twitter’s IT department
- Jul 31, 2020, 1:29 AM UTC
Twitter says a spear phishing attack led to the huge bitcoin scam
‘This attack relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees’
By Jay Peters
- Jul 27, 2020, 10:16 PM UTC
Years before big hack, Twitter contractors reportedly spied on celebs, including Beyoncé
Some of those contractors were reportedly employed by Cognizant
By Jay Peters
- Jul 23, 2020, 12:51 AM UTC
Twitter says hackers accessed the DMs of one elected official in last week’s attack
Attackers may have accessed the DMs of up to 36 accounts, including a Netherlands-based official
By Jay Peters
- Jul 20, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC
Coinbase says it halted more than $280,000 in bitcoin transactions during Twitter hack
The company blacklisted the bitcoin address
By Makena Kelly
- Jul 18, 2020, 4:38 AM UTC
Read Twitter’s update on the huge hack — 8 accounts may have had private messages stolen
But it sounds like the attackers didn’t get Biden’s data cache
- Jul 18, 2020, 12:28 AM UTC
Go read The New York Times’ incredible account of how the Twitter attack may have happened
We’re starting to get an idea of how the legendary hack went down
By Nick Statt
- Jul 17, 2020, 10:00 AM UTC
Everything we know about this week’s big Twitter hack so far
Who might have done it, and how, and what else they might have planned. Plus: Q&A with Facebook’s chief diversity officer
By Casey Newton
- Jul 17, 2020, 12:35 AM UTC
Trump’s Twitter account has extra protections, which could be why it didn’t get hacked
A lot of high-profile accounts were hit yesterday, but not Trump’s
By Jay Peters
- Jul 16, 2020, 11:41 PM UTC
Twitter’s massive attack: What we know after Apple, Biden, Obama, Musk, and others tweeted a bitcoin scam
Update: Wednesday’s Twitter attack is now being investigated by numerous law enforcement agencies
By Nick Statt
- Jul 16, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC
The FBI opens investigation into Twitter attack over national security concerns
Numerous investigations are now probing Twitter’s worst-ever security incident
By Nick Statt
- Jul 16, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC
Twitter says passwords were spared in yesterday’s attack, but it’s still working to restore locked accounts
Twitter wants to restore access “ASAP”
By Jay Peters
- Jul 16, 2020, 5:01 PM UTC
Lawmakers demand more details on Twitter’s massive hack
Twitter is investigating the hack
By Makena Kelly
- Jul 16, 2020, 3:42 AM UTC
Twitter reveals that its own employee tools contributed to unprecedented hack
Twitter says hackers compromised high-profile accounts thanks to access to internal tools
By Nick Statt
- Jul 16, 2020, 12:27 AM UTC
The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis
Bitcoin scammers won’t be the last people to take over verified accounts — and we should be very, very worried about who else will
By Casey Newton
- Jul 15, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC
Twitter shut off the ability for many people to tweet after massive hack
Update: “Most accounts should be able to Tweet again”
