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Thousands of verified Twitter accounts hacked


One of the world's most popular social media platforms, Twitter, has been hacked.

Several high profile celebrities like Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian and even the richest man in the world, Jeff Bizo's had their accounts hacked.

 

 

Twitter confirmed the hack and said they believed it to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted their employees who had access to internal systems.

In a statement sent out to its millions of followers, the company said they are investigating the attack and will update their followers.

Once Twitter became aware of the breach they blocked the hacked accounts and removed the fake tweets.

The company says some people may be unable to Tweet or reset their password while they review and address this incident.

The investigation continues.