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Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak says YouTube has for months allowed scammers to use his name and likeness as part of a phony bitcoin giveaway similar to the one conducted during the hack of Twitter blue checkmarks last week. Robert Burnson for Bloomberg: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (photo: Jonathan Alcorn) Scammers used images and video…
That big Twitter breach earlier this week was caused by employees who fell for a social engineering scheme. Apple’s Twitter account was breached by Bitcoin scammers who also hacked the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates, among others. Apple’s Twitter account was breached by bitcoin scammers Twitter’s official blog: At this…
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Late on Thursday, Twitter disclosed that hackers had targeted about 130 accounts during this week’s cyber attack, an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations including Apple Inc. were compromised. Reuters: Hackers had accessed Twitter’s internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality…
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A successful attack on your system’s servers represents a threat to all of your users’ privacy and data security… Did this attack threaten the security of the President’s own Twitter account? — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri Hawley made the remarks as Twitter was dealing with a massive Twitter hack of prominent accounts to…
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Apple’s Twitter account has been breached by Bitcoin scammers who have also hacked the Twitter accounts of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, and more. Apple’s Twitter account has been breached by bitcoin scammers Juli Clover for MacRumors: Apple users should be careful not to believe the fake tweet,…
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