Some of the world's biggest Twitter accounts are hacked. Here's what we do and don't know about what's going on right now.
Elon Musk wants to give you free bitcoin — at least, that's what his Twitter account says.The Tesla account is one of numerous high-profile accounts on the social network that have been compromised as part of a remarkable, far-reaching hack, in an attempt to scam people using digital currency bitcoin.
The only common thread between the accounts appears to be that they're all, well, very famous. The hacker appears to be targeting high-profile accounts that will spread the scam as far as possible.There have been incidents in the past in which a third-party social media management app got hacked, and then users of that app were compromised. It meant hackers could get access to their accounts, even though Twitter itself wasn't breached.
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