2020 Twitter account hijacking

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. Hackers used social engineering against Twitter employees to gain access to administrative tools, allowing them to post the tweets directly.

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