Hackers targeted about 130 Twitter accounts in their unprecedented attack on some of the platform’s most visible users this week, the company revealed.

The attackers were only able to take over a “small subset” of the targeted accounts — including those owned by Apple, Uber, Kanye West and Elon Musk — that they used to post fraudulent tweets, Twitter said in a statement late Thursday.
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The FBI and other law-enforcement authorities are also probing the attack, in which hackers infiltrated more than a dozen high-profile Twitter accounts to push a bitcoin scam. The affected accounts belonged to major business and political figures including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett.
More than 400 payments worth $121,000 flowed into three bitcoin addresses mentioned in the bogus tweets, according to Elliptic, a cryptocurrency analysis firm. The majority of the money came from Asia-based exchanges — including a single payment worth $42,000 — but about a quarter of the proceeds likely came from North American victims, Elliptic said.
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