Scammers hacked Twitter's internal systems

By Joseph Menn, Raphael Satter and Katie Paul
Updated July 16 2020 - 2:11pm, first published 2:05pm
The Twitter account of the world's richest man,.Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, was hit by bitcoin scammers.
The Twitter account of the world's richest man,.Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, was hit by bitcoin scammers.

Twitter says hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform's top voices, including US presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former US President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk, and used them to solicit digital currency.

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