{"id":261780,"date":"2020-07-15T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=261780"},"modified":"2020-07-15T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:57:32","slug":"us-several-prominent-twitter-accounts-appear-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/15\/us-several-prominent-twitter-accounts-appear-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"US: Several prominent Twitter accounts appear hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_261781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261781\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US-Several-prominent-Twitter-accounts-appear-hacked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261781\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US-Several-prominent-Twitter-accounts-appear-hacked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US-Several-prominent-Twitter-accounts-appear-hacked.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US-Several-prominent-Twitter-accounts-appear-hacked-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter&#8217;s official support account said the microblogging website is &#8220;aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter.&#8221; (File photo: @konkarampelas\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 Several prominent Twitter accounts appear to have been hacked Wednesday, including those of musician Kanye West, tech luminary Elon Musk and US presidential contender Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The accounts of former President Barack Obama, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, financier Warren Buffet and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were also affected.<\/p>\n<p>Screengrabs taken from the accounts appear to show them posting a link asking for Bitcoin donations, variously saying in some form they are &#8220;giving back&#8221; to their communities or fans by doubling any donations.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s official support account said the microblogging website is &#8220;aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly,&#8221; it said.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 Several prominent Twitter accounts appear to have been hacked Wednesday, including those of musician Kanye West, tech luminary Elon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":261781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-technology","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261782,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261780\/revisions\/261782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}