Obama, Biden, Netanyahu, Musk: Here's a List of Every Hacked Twitter Account

Twitter got hacked. Prominent users are shilling sketchy crypto addresses. Here's a list of victims.

AccessTimeIconJul 15, 2020 at 10:45 p.m. UTC
Updated Sep 14, 2021 at 9:31 a.m. UTC
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Twitter melted down Wednesday as the accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, Kanye West, Elon Musk, prominent crypto Twitter figures, exchanges and others with verified accounts were hacked. Here's a growing list of the victims:

People

  • Barack Obama
  • Joe Biden
  • Elon Musk
  • Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Floyd Mayweather
  • Kanye West
  • Changpeng Zhao
  • Charlie Lee
  • Justin Sun
  • Michael Bloomberg
  • Jeff Bezos
  • Warren Buffett
  • Wiz Khalifa
  • Bill Gates
  • XXXTentacion
  • Kim Kardashian West
  • MrBeast
  • Numerous other minor and unverified Twitter accounts
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Joe Biden, hacked.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hacked

Exchanges and other crypto firms

  • Binance
  • Coinbase
  • KuCoin
  • Gemini
  • Bitfinex
  • Bitcoin
  • Ripple
  • CoinDesk
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Compromised Twitter accounts shilled a sketchy link. (Twitter.com)

Corporates

  • Cash App
  • Apple
  • Uber

This is a developing story.

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