Twitter accounts of Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos hacked in high profile cyber attack linked to Bitcoin scam

In a high profile coordinated cyber attack, Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, Democrat Nominee Joe Biden and a host of U.S business leaders got hacked on Wednesday. The accounts were hacked and a fake tweet was sent out from all the accounts in order to promote a Bitcoin scam, Bloomberg reported. The tweets sent out from the accounts of all the U.S biggies promised to double the amount of money of anyone who sent funds via Bitcoin within 30 minutes. The attack on some of the most powerful Twitter accounts did not stop at sending out a fake tweet but also ensured that the personalities were unable to put out any fresh tweet in order to clarify that they were not behind the fake tweet.