Let's talk about the Twitter hack, 'batterygate' claims, and more rumorsSomehow, it seemed like the entire internet was a fail this week in more ways than one, but here we are.
Congrats to everyone — we've made it through another week, and boy, what a doozie it was.
First, in case you missed the whole Twitter security fiasco, it's been wild. For those wondering, our iMore Twitter account has had trouble sending out tweets for the past few days, and it's because of the Twitter Bitcoin hack.
A hacker was able to access several high profile accounts, including Apple, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama, and more, and send out a tweet from these accounts about sending back double the amount of Bitcoin sent to them. Eventually, since all of these breached accounts were high profile and verified accounts, Twitter decided to disable new tweets from all verified accounts, including iMore and several of our own writers (including yours truly). The hackers made out with over $100k worth of Bitcoin, and now even the FBI is g...
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Let's talk about the Twitter hack, 'batterygate' claims, and more rumors
