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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.

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 9:31 a.m. Published Jul 15, 2020, 10:45 p.m.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (U.S. House of Representatives)

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:

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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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hacked

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Exchanges and other crypto firms

Binance
Coinbase
KuCoin
Gemini
Bitfinex
Bitcoin
Ripple
CoinDesk

Compromised Twitter accounts shilled a sketchy link. (Twitter.com)

Corporates

Cash App
Apple
Uber

This is a developing story.

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Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. When he's not reporting on digital assets and policy, he can be found admiring Amtrak or building LEGO trains. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers' Journalist of the Year in 2020.