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Twitter Hack

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Twitter Hack

Hacked. Questions this morning, after the Twitter accounts of many high-profile users were hijacked on Wednesday including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality television show star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President Barack Obama, billionaire Elon Musk, and rapper Kanye West, among many others – were taken over and used to solicit the digital currency bitcoin. At least $115,000 were collected so from folks who didn’t realize they were being scammed. Verified accounts were frozen and unable to Tweet.  those who have donated, apparently not realizing they are being scammed. Twitter says they are investigating and taking steps to fix it.

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