Bitcoin heist on Twitter

(Summary)

Last week, hackers succeeded in compromising influential accounts on Twitter in order to gather money from followers through Bitcoin. The hackers tweeted to ask followers to pay money in Bitcoin and they claimed that senders could gain doubled money. They deleted the Tweet within an hour but succeeded in collecting $110,000 worth of Bitcoins without trace. Twitter is working on figuring out the nature of the attack and ways to prevent similar frauds from occurring again.

(My Signal)

I predict this kind of crime will turn more complicated. I’m also afraid that hackers will aim at people’s charitable spirits. If hacker hi-jack famous charity activists’ accounts and ask donations to their followers on social networks, this might be as gullible as followers who received damage for hackers. One of the point of this time fraud is that they asked to pay money through Bitcoin. This indirect payment might make difficult to trace them. We should constantly stay on the outlook for this kind of crime. I hope people’s good will never be used by these nasty hackers.