The hacked accounts requested Bitcoin from their followers and promised a double return on investment. Twitter – Apple, Uber, Bill Gates, Barak Obama, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Kanye West and Floyd Mayweather and a total of 130 Twitter accounts were hacked using a spear-phishing tactic targeting Twitter employees.This attack is considered to be among the worst cyberattacks in the US due to the sensitivity and high profile of the targets, as well as the duration that hackers gained access to these accounts -8-9 months! The affected users included 425 of the US Fortune 500 companies, all branches of the US military, the Pentagon, the State Department, and other reputable companies and universities worldwide. SolarWinds – the producer of Orion – a network and applications monitoring platform, was compromised, sending malicious updates to its users.
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