Coordinated social engineering attack on twitter by hackers

Twitter was hit with a massive hack on Wednesday as several high-profile accounts tweeted about the same Bitcoin wallet, urging followers to send cryptocurrency with the promise of returning double the amount. This, of course, was an orchestrated scam.

The company says it’s still investigating the incident, but has shared what it knows so far. In a thread of tweets on @TwitterSupport, it said it “ detected what we believe to be coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”