One of the social media handles of the most popular exchange Binance has been hacked and used to promote a scam. The Binance twitter handle has been hacked and is being used to promote a fake partnership that promises 5000 BTC giveaway to the community.
The scammer links a site cryptoforhealth .com (might want to stay off the site until twitter comes up with a solution) where they claim to help people in this hard times of Covid-19, they also claim that top exchanges such as Binance, Kraken, Gemini etc are in partnership in these giveaways. They ask you to participate by sending them bitcoin first ranging from 0.1 to 20 BTC which is a typical sign of a scam.
PLEASE BE WARNED, THIS IS SCAM !!!
The companies mentioned above would never ask you to send them Crypto for any reason.
The CEO of Binance, CZ has asked users not to click the link and not send any Cryptocurrency..unfortunately a few minutes later, he also got hacked.
Crypto Twitter sees Massive Hacks.
The hack is said to have started with a Cryptocurrency trader who goes by the name @AngeloBTC on twitter, he was hacked first. Then followed by Binance, CZ, Justin Sun and many others.
They even Retweeted these tweets with those hacked accounts which shows that they are either a group doing this or one person.
The hacker also uses one wallet address in all the hacks involving cryptocurrency accounts.
Extended Hack to non crypto influencers
The hackers have also extended this activities into other large personalities in the society such as Bill Gates, kim kardashian, Kanye West, Barack Obama and many more.
The Hack has struck the Crypto Space with a lasting scare since today will never be forgotten not even for the Twitter team. They single highhandedly hacked a whole lots of accounts
The Twitter support has said that they are working on identifying what the problem was, and Tron CEO, Justin Sun who was also a victim of the hack has offered to pay $1 million to anyone that can i identify who did the hack and get their accounts back.