BREAKING: Major Twitter accounts, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Uber, Apple and more, appear to be compromised by bitcoin scammers.
Similar tweets appeared on the accounts of tech executive Elon Musk, rapper Kanye West and corporations including Apple, Uber and the money transfer app Cash.
Other people on Twitter called out the tweets as obvious scams before the tweets were deleted after several minutes. The tweets began showing up around 3 p.m. Eastern time, and the attack appeared to be continuing on scores of Twitter accounts more than two hours later.
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