The seismic Twitter hack exposed Bitcoin to millions of potential new users yesterday. But was it really the type of exposure that the crypto industry wants?
Roughly two dozen high-profile, verified Twitter accounts were compromised yesterday after hackers socially engineered their way into one of Twitter’s admin accounts. The hacked accounts tweeted out a Bitcoin scam, exposing the world of crypto to fresh eyes—for better or worse.
From the attack, the hackers filched roughly $120,000 worth of Bitcoin using a scamming tactic the cryptocurrency community has long been familiar with: the “double money” trick wherein an attacker asks victims for Bitcoin, which the scammers promise to pay back in double. Only no Bitcoin ever gets sent back.
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