2020 Twitter account hijacking

On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 69 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. The scam tweets asked individuals to send bitcoin currency to a specific cryptocurrency wallet, with the promise that money sent would be doubled and returned – within minutes, one account received over 320 deposits with a value of over US$110,000 before the scam messages were removed by Twitter.