Hackers Take Over Prominent Crypto Twitter Accounts in Simultaneous Attack
Hackers pumping a crypto giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, individuals and at least one news org.
- The unknown attackers tweeted identical messages promising that they were “giving back 5000 BTC ($45,889,950) to the community” on Wednesday afternoon from the accounts of Gemini, Binance, KuCoin, Coinbase and CoinDesk.
- Their messages, sent within minutes of each other, prompted readers to claim their rewards at an included link associated with “Crypto For Health.”
- Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s CEO, attempted to warn Twitter users that the Tweet was a scam within five minutes of the hack. But the attackers appear to have hidden his response and hacked him too.
- Kucoin was also targeted in the hack. CoinDesk’s account was as well.
- Attempts to reach the hacked entities were not immediately successful.
- At least some of the compromised accounts have multi-factor authentication enabled, including CoinDesk’s.
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