Apple's Twitter Account Hacked by Bitcoin Scammers

[MacRumors]

Apple's Twitter account has been breached by bitcoin scammers who have also hacked the Twitter accounts of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and more.

Apple users should be careful not to believe the fake tweet, which is a scam to collect bitcoin. Twitter has been deleting the fake tweets, but the scammers who have breached the accounts have been repeatedly posting them.

The tweet that was posted on the Apple Twitter account has since been deleted. Given the number of high profile accounts that have been breached, the hack may have originated from a Twitter security vulnerability.

Apple does not actually use its official Apple Twitter account on the platform, reserving it for sending out reminders ahead of events and advertisements.

Update: Twitter says that it's looking into the security breach and will provide an update after implementing a fix.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1283518038445223936

Update 2: Twitter appears to have disabled all tweets from verified accounts, so no one with a verified account is able to tweet at this time.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1283541557656731648

Update 3: Most verified Twitter accounts are now once again able to tweet. Twitter is still working on fully fixing the issue.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1283562446196596737

Article Link: Apple's Twitter Account Hacked by Bitcoin Scammers

 

[DeadeyeM]

Elon Musk's account hacked also

 

[digitalrampage]

Hahah. At Apple you don’t bitcoin us. We bitcoin you 🤣😂

 

[Homme]

Oh my. I know it’s twitter instead of Apple but the thought of Apple actually getting hacked would be funny (and of course bad at the same time)😂

 

[EfratBarTal]

Holy moly, this is big! Apple, Elon Musk and Bill Gates. Must be a huge flaw.

 

[Jay42]

Quite embarrassing for Twitter and some 2nd hand embarrassment for all the corporate accounts that were hacked.

 

[zorinlynx]

A lot of accounts have been hacked; this is pretty concerning and suggests there's a massive security hole in Twitter's infrastructure.

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

Unlikely to be a "hack". Twitter's been promoting an impending update to their API service, I'll bet my Bitcoin that the root cause stems from there. https://twitter.com/TwitterDev

* Disclaimer: I have no Bitcoins to bet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[JPack]

Why not do both?

Send us your iTunes gift cards and Bitcoins!

 

[thadoggfather]

Twitter is feeling like BlockBuster: the writing is on the wall, ripe for any competent competition to come in and swoop them up.

Will make you wonder how they were ever a thing, like dial-up AOL or Netscape or instant messenger or dumb phones and pagers

 

[SoN1NjA]

Holy ****

I got the notification and was like “Hey, maybe Apple is accepting Bitcoin” and the more I read into it I realised it was a scam

so then I went to open it fully and bam, deleted, and then I came here

 

[Apple Macintosh 128K]

Seems a Twitter vulnerability. Countless big name accounts hack. Verified accounts require 2-factor authentication to be turned on these days on Twitter. It's unlikely they were able to get past such along with passwords for all those accounts.

This began with the accounts for popular cryptocurrency accounts such as Gemini, Binance, Binance's CEO, Coinbase, CoinDesk, and KuCoin.

Other hacked accounts:

• Microsoft
• Cisco
• Juniper
• Oracle
• Zoom
• Citrix
• CAP
• F5
• Intel
• Adobe
• Jenkins
• NVIDIA
• Apache
• Chrome
• Android
• VMware
• Siemens
• Rust Lang Crates
• Go Programming

Many others too.

 

[AngerDanger]

 

[Stephen Reynolds]

not shocking apple can not keep our data and information private or protected they simply are strong enough for the power they have

 

[I7guy]

not shocking apple can not keep our data and information private or protected they simply are strong enough for the power they have

Perhaps you didn't read the article?

 

[Apple Macintosh 128K]

not shocking apple can not keep our data and information private or protected they simply are strong enough for the power they have

This isn't Apple. This is a hack of Twitter itself. They've hacked the accounts of MANY of the biggest tech companies out there. Verified accounts require 2-factor authentication to be turned on, so it's incredibly unlikely that someone was able to get the password and the 2-factor for all these accounts. It's almost certain someone compromised Twitter itself.

 

[farewelwilliams]

i'm surprised Twitter doesn't have an emergency blacklist that autodeletes tweets with certain words/phrases.

 

[nylonsteel]

glad i dont do bitcoin

 

[Apple Macintosh 128K]

Add Jeff Bezos to the list of hacked accounts too now.

This is the biggest hack in Twitter history according to security sources.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I wonder if Apple had 2FA turned on for their Twitter account. It doesn’t sound like it.

 

[44267547]

not shocking apple can not keep our data and information private or protected they simply are strong enough for the power they have

So this is one of those posts that was a ‘knee jerk’ comment that you didn’t take time to actually read the article? I guess we can let it slide, but the fact is, Apples security measures are well above beyond most in the tech industry, even if this is mainly about Twitter.

 

[ericg301]

not Trump?

 

[Plutonius]

Does this mean that I will not get double my money back ?

 

[acgmph]

This looks to be hitting accounts that might be managed by social media companies or teams, which means these accounts have a shared password and no MFA. They probably did some OSINT and gathered the email accounts and then sprayed the billions of known passwords from old breaches, then waited to capture a lot of these and attack simultaneously with all of them. The RCA will be an interesting read, if we ever get one.

 

[naturalstar]

2020 just keeps on giving. Though I pegged a major cyber attack for some time in Oct/Nov just in time for presidential elections. Maybe this is the test run.