Hackers apparently compromised Twitter Inc. accounts late Wednesday belonging to Tesla Inc.'s Elon Musk, Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates, Apple Inc. and others in an attempted cryptocurrency heist. Tesla and Twitter have yet to respond to requests for comment. A tweet, that was rendered inactive about 10 minutes after it went out, from Musk's account read "Feeling greatful [sic], doubling all payments sent to my BTC address! You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes." Tweets with a similar request went out on Bill Gates's account and Apple's never-used account and were taken down. According to CoinDesk, Twitter accounts for Gemini, Binance, KuCoin, Coinbase, Litecoin's Charlie Lee, Tron's Justin Sun, Bitcoin, Bitfinex, Ripple, Cash App, and CoinDesk, were also compromised. BitTorrent also confirmed the hacks and said it was working with Twitter to return its accounts to normal. Shares of Twitter declined 2.4% after hours, following a 3.8% rise to close the regular session at $35.67.
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