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A Twitter employee reportedly gave hackers access to an internal tool that allowed them to take control of the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bill Gates

of tech executives like Amazon's Jeff Bezos and many others, including former President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Joe Biden, on Wednesday. Tweets were published from their accounts asking people to donate Bitcoin to multiple cryptocurrency scam addresses.report, hackers were able to do so after a Twitter employee reportedly gave them access to an internal tool.

One of the sources told the outlet that they bribed someone inside Twitter with payment for access. Another said, "we used a rep that literally done all the work for us." A Twitter spokesperson told Motherboard that it's still unclear if the employee hacked the accounts using the tool or if they gave hackers access to it for them to do so.

 

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