Twitter hack: accounts of prominent figures, including Biden, Musk, Obama, Gates and Kanye compromised

Accounts of Uber and Apple also appear to have been hacked as part of scam instructing followers to transfer cryptocurrency

Twitter suffered a major security breach on Wednesday that saw hackers take control of the accounts of major public figures and corporations, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Apple.

The company confirmed the breach Wednesday evening, more than six hours after the hack began, and attributed it to a coordinated social engineering attack" on its own employees that enabled the hackers to access internal systems and tools". Twitter said it was looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed" in addition to using the compromised accounts to send tweets.