How to make your Twitter account more secure in an age of hacks

Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 16:02 in Mathematics & Economics

Keeping your apps update can help stay secure. (Pixabay /)Last night, a number of high-profile and verified Twitter users all shared a curious message at roughly the same time. They included big names such as Elon Musk and Bill Gates. The suspicious tweets promised to double any amount of Bitcoin sent to a specific wallet ID listed in the tweet itself. On its face, it screams of a scam, but these are verified accounts for certifiably rich people—some users took a chance. Quickly, the wallet had racked up more than $120,000 in bitcoin transactions, none of which will ever be doubled or even returned. It was a massive security breach from Twitter. The company scrambled to delete the offending tweets and investigate. For a while, all verified Twitter users couldn’t send tweets at all in an effort to prevent the fraudulent message from propagating even further and duping more folks out...

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