{"id":110899,"date":"2020-08-05T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/twitter-hackers-who-targeted-elon-musk-and-others-received-121000-in-bitcoin-analysis-shows"},"modified":"2020-08-05T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:47:46","slug":"twitter-hackers-who-targeted-elon-musk-and-others-received-121000-in-bitcoin-analysis-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/twitter-hackers-who-targeted-elon-musk-and-others-received-121000-in-bitcoin-analysis-shows","title":{"rendered":"Twitter hackers who targeted Elon Musk and others received $121,000 in bitcoin, analysis shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twitter-hackers-who-targeted-elon-musk-and-others-received-121000-in-bitcoin-analysis-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victims included Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Accounts for those people, and others, posted tweets asking followers to send bitcoin to a specific anonymous address.<\/p>\n<p>For their efforts, the scammers received over 400 payments in bitcoin, with a total value of $121,000 at Thursday\u2019s exchange rate, according to an analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain performed by Elliptic, a cryptocurrency compliance firm.<\/p>\n<p>Elliptic co-founder Tom Robinson said it\u2019s a low sum for what appears to be a historic hack that Twitter said involved an insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims included Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Accounts for those people, and others, posted tweets asking followers to send bitcoin to a specific anonymous address. For their efforts, the scammers received over 400 payments in bitcoin, with a total value of $121,000 at Thursday\u2019s exchange rate, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,34,2019,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk","category-geopolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}