High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hacked in Bitcoin Solicitation Scheme

A wave of tweets in apparent hacking swept through Twitter, with more than half a dozen high-profile accounts — belonging to U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaire Bill Gates, and rapper Kanye West, among others — used to solicit bitcoin donations. The cause of the breach was not immediately clear, but the scale and the scope of the problem suggested that it was not limited to a single account or service.