Tens of significant-profile Twitter accounts had been hacked on Thursday, questioning the micro-blogging platform’s safety. From Elon Musk to Bill Gates and numerous others fell sufferer to an elaborate cyber assault on their official Twitter handles, which was then applied for a Bitcoin scam. The scammers reportedly built more than $100,000 in a subject of handful of minutes. Twitter is nonetheless investigating the difficulty and the resource of the hack remains unfamiliar as of this composing.

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Amidst all the chaos on Twitter, in which users ended up submitting a list of hacked accounts, the identify of Israel Key Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also appeared among the those people whose Twitter accounts have been hacked. A screenshot displaying Netanyahu’s official Twitter tackle tweeting the Bitcoin fraud message in Israeli language went viral, suggesting his account was compromised.

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IBTimes investigated if the sole non-English account of Netanyahu was in truth hacked and it appears there ended up no suspicious tweets from his account. As a make a difference of truth, the screenshot shared greatly on social media platforms is bogus. Notice all accounts compromised so considerably this night are in English

To keep the rip-off from likely viral even further, Twitter’s verified accounts can’t tweet until finally the difficulty is resolved.