Here are the tweets sent by hackers from handles of Biden, Bezos, Gates, Obama and others

Hacked Twitter accounts of celebrities has shed light on the microblogging platform’s weak security system.

The list of accounts commandeered simultaneously grew rapidly to include Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Barack Obama, Uber, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, bitcoin specialty firms and many others.

The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos posted messages attempting to convince people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin in a massive scam.

Posing as celebrities and the wealthy, the hackers asked followers to send the digital currency bitcoin to a series of addresses. By evening, 400 bitcoin transfers were made worth a combined $120,000. Half of the victims had funds in US bitcoin exchanges, a quarter in Europe and a quarter in Asia, according to forensics company Elliptic.