In a surprise twist of events, "Blue Checks" is trending on Twitter today for an exciting reason that's caused quite the commotion.

Blue checks have always been Twitter's way of differentiating real accounts of prominent social and political figures from false accounts that would try to steal people's identities. Some would argue that it is also recently seen as a mode by some people to elevate their social status. Yet, information technology has just put a target on multiple people'south backs from Twitter hackers.

Earlier today, Bitcoin scammers hacked into multiple public figures' accounts, such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk, in an effort to earn virtual money in the form of Bitcoins. Tweets were fabricated from these users' accounts that asked their millions of followers to send the Bitcoin to a wallet in commutation for double the amount to be sent back to them.

Now it seems that Twitter had temporarily blocked accounts before today from posting to mitigate the damages and investigate the state of affairs. Non-verified Twitter users, in response, have seized the opportunity to make memes out of the current situation and relish in the fact that the verified accounts aren't able to make posts.

While this may seem strange that multiple glory Twitter accounts were making the same request for money, this didn't finish some people from sending money earlier the breach could exist independent. According to Tom Warren, an employee over at The Verge, the scammers were able to receive more 250 transactions and enhance around $104,000 earlier they could be stopped.

Information technology is unknown if in that location has been an investigation launched on the matter yet, simply with these sorts of crimes involving Bitcoin, it is hard to say if people will exist able to get their coin back. Twitter does offer optional security features that would have helped prevent this catastrophe; perhaps it will just enforce verified accounts to follow them in the future. Interestingly, many tech giants such as Apple have fallen victim to this hack. In any case, permit this exist a lesson for all to accept meliorate care of their passwords and never use the aforementioned passwords on all accounts.

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