US Billionaires Twitter account hacked
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among several public figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam.
The official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in the cryptocurrency.
“Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time,” a tweet from Mr Gates’s account said. “You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”
The tweets were deleted just minutes after they first were posted.
All verified Twitter accounts marked with a blue tick have now been stopped from posting any tweets, and there are reports that password reset requests are also being denied.
Twitter said it was looking into the incident and would issue a statement soon.
In the short time it was online, the address displayed in the tweets received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000).
The Twitter accounts targeted all have millions of followers.
