Obama to Musk, VIPS targeted by Twitter scammers

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter is investigating a massive hack in which high-profile users from Barack Obama to Elon Musk had their accounts hijacked by scammers, who the social network believes targeted its employees to gain access to internal systems.

Twitter said the scam, which duped people into sending hackers Bitcoins worth $116,000, was a “coordinated social engineering attack”.