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Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Elon Musk among hundreds of Twitter accounts hit by hack

BUSINESS DAILY © FRANCE 24

The Twitter accounts of hundreds of companies and public figures have been hacked in a major cybersecurity breach at the social media platform. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Kim Kardashian were among the people affected - with tweets posted on their accounts seeking payments of Bitcoin, promising it would be doubled. Twitter said the attack targeted employee systems to gain access to the accounts. More than $100,000 is believed to have been sent to the hackers.

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