may have made any excess of $100000.00 the hackers managed to tweet figures including barack obama joe biden bill gates asking followers to send the bit coin. is the world's 2nd biggest economy is back in the black according to beijing anyway government figures say china's economy expanded by 3.2 percent here on here higher than experts forecast it suggests there could be hope for a rapid recovery elsewhere in the world however key sectors like retail are still struggling. now 1st it was called kadabra then relentless and finally amazon 25 years ago today jeff bezos launched his ambitious online store his 1st book with only been sold a few months earlier now it sells basically everything is reshaped how we think about retail and technology. this is how it looked in 1905 and this is where it's led millions of products that go well beyond books a logistics operation of unprecedented scale cutting edge consumer technology for help on the planet and the world's richest man. how to quantify amazon it's the largest online retailer in the u.s. by a long shot easily eclipsing competitors like walmart and e-bay

they include accounts of former president barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, and tesla's ceo, elon musk. the message that was on musk's twitter reads in part quote, feeling grateful, doubling all payments sent to my btc address. the tweet also had a link where people can donate. >> it appears that they got over $115,000. not bad for an hour's work. and all ready, they've about more than $50,000. one of the key things that this raises questions about is how much we can trust twitter at all. >> well, twitter says it's working to fix the issue. and so far, there's no word on who was behind this scam. . >>> still ahead on kpix 5 and cbsn bay area, a sea plane business grounded after someone reported it was not covid safe. >>> are snitches doing more harm than good? >>> plus a young man in the south bay found dead at an apartment complex. what police know so far. . >>> and notice the hazy skies, that's not the usual bay area fog. the fires we're keeping ab eye on tonight. . >>> the fog is also making its way back in over the bay as we look to the east from sales force tower. this is the

and twitter suffered a serious intrusion last night: theco acunts of barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, warren buffett, michael bloombe p and other hifile people were all taken over by hackers who sought to have peoplpay them in cryptocurrencies. we look at the broader issues raised by these breaches with two experts on the methods used, the possible damage, and the effects on democracy. nina jankowicz is the author of "how to lose the information war," a fellow athe wilson center, which is a washington think tank. and dmitri alperovitch traced the 2016 d.n.c. hack to russian intelligence while he was at a cybersecurity firm hired to investigate at breach. he's now starting a non-profit that focuses on cybersecurity and trade. welcomanto you both. you very much for being here. dmitri, to you first. about this twitter hack, can yos just givea sense, what is it that we know happened? >> well, we actually have someki br news to reveal just in the last few minutes before we went on the air, and that isy that we have possible attribution to who may have been behind thttk. this is the worst

they included accounts of barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, and elon musk. it read feeling grateful doubling all payments to my btc address. it had a link where people can donate. >> it appears they got over $115,000. not bad for an hour's work. and, already, they have taken about more than $50,000. one of the key things that this raises questions about is how much we can trust twitter at all. >> twitter says it is working to fix the issue and says most accounts should be able to tweet again. as we continue working on a fix, this functionality may come and go. we are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible. so far, no word on who is behind this scam. >>> tonight, california is reporting its second highest daily total of new coronavirus cases. more than 11,000 yesterday alone. that's a rise of more than 3%. the state also reported 140 new deaths. >> tonight, alameda county is on the state's watch list for the third day in a row which means for changes to reopening plans. places of worship can holdout door services only and indoor malls are

. >> the twitter accounts of several high-profile people and companies, including barack obama, joe biden, bill gatese, and uber, have been hacked. hackers posted tweets trying to dupe people into sending bitcoin, promising they will double their money. bitcoin is a form of digital currency traded on the internet also known as critical currency. comments and posts on twitter suggest thousands of dollars in bitcoin may have been sent to scammers' digital account. twitter says it is investigating. u.s. tech giant apple is celebrating a big win in ireland. the european high court has ruled apple does not have to pay $15 million in irish back taxes. judges ruled it has not been proven that apple had an illegal tax react -- relationship with ireland's government. a sculpture of a black lives matter protester has been erected in bristol in the same spot where a statue of a slave trader was pulled down by members of the public last month. the temporary installation was put up by artist mark quinn. he says he was inspired by the antiracism demonstrator photographed standing on the empty plinth in june. prote

major twitter attack under way targeting major accounts including former president barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, so let's get right to mary bruce with late reporting and know twitter is responding. >> reporter: they're targeting some of the biggest names in business, politics and entertainment including kim kardashian and kanye west. these are accounts with millions of followers. now, the scam tweet looks like this one that went out from former president obama's account asking people to send money to a bitcoin wallet. this tweet and many others have already been taken down. now, it's unclear at this point how many people have fallen victim to this scam but it does appear right now that already hundreds of transactions have taken place on this account totally over $100,000. tonight, david, twitter says it is aware of the breach and they are investigating. >> all right, so beware of this major scam coming from all of those big names tonight on twitter. mary, thank you. >>> we turn next to newly released video of a deadly police encounter in wilson, oklahoma. an attempted arrest. two police office

the twitter accounts of several high profile people and companies including barack obama joe biden bill gates apple and have been hacked the hackers posted tweets trying to do people into sending bitcoin promising that they will double their money bitcoin is a form of digital currency that's traded over the internet or so known as crypto currency comments and posts on twitter suggest thousands of dollars in bitcoin may have been sent to the scammers digital account twitter says it's investigating. u.s. tech giant apple is celebrating a big win in arland european high court has ruled apple does not have to pay $15000000000.00 in arash back taxes judges ruled it hasn't been proven that apple had an illegal tax arrangement with islands government and used shell companies to under declare profits grossly. a sculpture of a black lives matter protester has been erected in the u.k. city of bristol in the same spot where statue of a slave trader was pulled down by members of the public last month a temporary installation was put up by artist mark quinn he says he was inspired by gen reed an anti-raci

barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, jeff bezos, kim kardashian. yo, if you were famous there was a good chance you were hacked on twitter yesterday. now for some reason the hackers missed my account which makes no sense because i'm famous. but whatever. it was probably like a second round or something. i don't care. so twitter released a statement saying that luckily the president's twitter account was not hacked. but how with they know? i mean this is the same guy who tweets about beating iran and the con fed rancee in the span of 10 minutes. he prehacks himself. the only way you would know if a hacker got trump is if the spelling was correct. guys trump spelled coronavirus right, i think he got hacked. so in response to the hack twitter actually disabled tweets from anyone with a verified account. yeah, blue check mark, couldn't tweet. and i have got to be honest, as someone who has a verified account, cuz i'm famous, remember, it was hard not being able to post for a few hours yesterday. and i had to resort to some drastic measures. >> @anna ke

investigators y he sent bogus tweetsrom high-profile figures, including barack obama, joe biden, bill gates and others. the tweets promoted a bitcoin scam that netted morthan $100,000. two other suspects, one in britain and one in orlando, a federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence of dzhokar tsarnaev, the convicted boston marathon bomber.ru today'ng said jurors were not sufficiently vetted for bias. tsarnaev and his older brother killed three people and injuredt 260. the brother di in a gun battle th police. u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg was discharged a frospital in new york today. she had a procedure on a bile duct stent. ginsburg is 87, and is also being treated for a recrence of cancer. the u.s. its deadline for this year's count back to december 31. officials wanted an extension through next april, due to pandem delays, but the request is stalled in congress.ht today, civil rand other groups warned that the dember timetable means an under-count that will hurt minorities. census results affect congressional districts and distribution of federal funds. an

some of the world's richest and most influential people including former president barack obama, joe biden, bill gatesnd several others. axios is pointing out the potential danger that this could raise by riding this. "president trump essentially governs via the social network. in the wrong hands, that account could start a war." again, axios saying that. claudia cowan is live in san francisco. claudia? >> live at twitter headquarters, good afternoon to you, harris. keep in mind many of twitter's 5,000 employees are working from home these days, and the company is looking into whether that may have factored into yesterday's attack, which according to one website appears to have been an inside job. you mention some of the big names. politicians, celebrities, billionaires targeted. through this focus treats as for bitcoins sent to a address promising to double the contribution. it works. before the treats were taken down, hundreds of followers were duped and that chris pulled in more than $100,000. it isn't into how this happened, but according to the tech website motherboard, hackers played a twitter i

hackers accessed high-profile accounts o wednesday, including those of barack obama, joe biden, bill gatesnye west, among others. they then sent out tweets promoting bitcoin from the accounts. we will get more details later in the program. in a win for privacye activist, ropean union's top court has avoided an agreement that let big tech companies share data on eu citizens with the u.s. privacy activists hope the decision means users' be a strongly protected in the u.s. as it is in europe. the vatican is telling bishops they should report all claims of clergy sexual abuse to police even if local law does not require it. that new guidance issued tay ai to force church leaders to investigate such cases. itlso urges them not to dismiss allegations made anonymously or through s ial for the second time this week,ed the untates has executed a federal death row inmate. wesley perky died by lethal injection at a federal prison in indiana. he had been convicted in 2003 of kidnapping and murdering a teenage girl in kaas city. this week's executions are the first in 17 years. the trump administration

barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, elon musk, attackers used their profiles to post a tweet urging followers to donate via bitcoin. >> one of the key things that this raises questions about is how much we can trust twitter at all. >> twitter believes this was a coordinated attack by people employees with access to internal systems and tools. >>> it's 6:09. luxury home sales on the rise. the pandemic not only changing how we work, but now changing where we want to live. that's ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. >>> mostly clear skies on our mount hamilton camera from the lick observatory. burning lk about the air the the mineral fire coming up. >>> and we've got brake lights through the altamont pass. a slow ride there. plus just north of highway 4, fire activity on willow pass road and winter way. traffic control in effect feel like you've watched all the things? now there's more to love with xfinity x1, the ultimate entertainment experience. like live sports. they're back with the best way to watch. and more streaming apps all in one place. more classics. more premier

it appears the twitter accounts of a lot of prominent folks, barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, elone been hacked. and there's concern that countless others have been hit. all by suspected bitcoin scammers. moments ago twitter said it was aware of it and taking steps to address it. let's bring in our senior media reporter, dylan biers. all over the tech world. what more do we know? twitter has not had a bad hack in a while. >> no. and we should say that this is different from another hack. words like unprecedented really do apply. this started with elon musk. it went to apple and uber. joe biden, barack obama, mike bloomberg, it continues to go. i've got twitter open on the left-hand side of my screen and we're seeing more and more names come across. two things stand out to me. the first thing is that the hack is such that whatever accounts have been hacked, it's not just that thakers have the ability to write tweets from that account. but also access to direct messages and other data of those users. so that's one thing to watch out for. the second thing that stands out to me is ther

and several other major global figures have been hacked in a crypto currency scam barack obama joe biden and bill gates were among those hijacked by scammers posting fake tweets to do people and making bitcoin donations .

massive hack on twitter we reported on last night here that hit former president barack obama, joe biden, and bill gates among so many others. >> reporter: victims sent the scam more than $117,000. tonight the fbi is investigating, david. >> pierre thomas tonight, thank you. >>> meantime, with the coronavirus worsening, an elaborate event at the white house today. the focus was not the virus. and tonight here the new polls. trump versus biden and what they now show. here's our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: with the covid-19 crisis getting even worse, president trump staged an elaborate photo-op on the south lawn of the white house on an entirely different issue. red and blue pick-ups, a crane and massive weights to symbolize government regulations. also, unfounded dire predictions of what will happen if he loses re-election. >> people have worked all their lives to get into a community, and now they're going to watch it go to hell. not going to happen, not while i'm here. >> reporter: the president made no mention whatsoever of the alarming increase in coronavirus c

it is pretty scary when it involves big name accounts like barack obama, bill gates, joe biden, elonusk, a host of others, another matter entirely, it might have been, might have been started as an inside job. susan li is following the story very closely. susan what do we know? susan: we know there was an attack, a report, suggesting it might be an inside job. as you put up on the screen, it was stunning with the likes of , companies like apple and uber. you saw their accounts were hacked. probably one of the biggest security breaches in social media history. all the posted a message that led back to a bitcoin scam that may have netted hackers $100,000 at the end of it. twitter said it was coordinated engineering attack to targeted employees and our internal systems and tools. that means employees were tricked into giving up their passwords and access to the internal system, then the accounts. jack dorsey, twitter founder tweeting apology, writing it was a tough day for us at twitter and we all feel terrible that this happened. this raised questions about security and privacy on soci

and several other major global figures have been hacked in a crypto currency scam barack obama joe biden and bill gates are among those hijacked by scammers posting tweets to do people into making big coin donations.

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president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft founder bill gates and companies including apple and twitter is investigating the matter and has called it a major security breach it says the hackers after targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. dollars look further into this and for that we're joined by spend happy he's director for international cyber security policy at the think tank shift the photo here in berlin he's works it works with various governments on cyber security issues when the question everyone is asking is my twitter account safe. well it is as safe with as it was before because the problem was is it wasn't really a heck of a breach as far as we know was the employees of twitter help outsiders criminals to make money out of it so what twitter has to do is not only to change some of the technology but also their processes procedures and interlocking additional structure which might take a bit longer. but some huge names were hacked the encoding joe biden what does this do to twitter's credibility and reputation as a

let's get you up to date now on some of those stories making the news today barack obama bill gates and joe biden among the high profile twitter accounts hijacked by scammers fake tweets and from their accounts duped people into making bitcoin donations the hacks raise questions about the platform security and privacy twitter says the major security breach was a quote coordinated social engineering attack. on china's economy is back in the black returning to growth in the 2nd quarter economy there expanding 3.2 percent year on year higher than experts predicted raises hopes of a similarly rapid recovery elsewhere on the planet. now disputed dam project on the river nile in ethiopia is feeling dangerous tensions with its neighbors downstream especially egypt because it will not accept another nation controlling the water on which it depends new satellite images show that ethiopia appears to be filling the reservoir of its ground run a science down talks with egypt and sadam ended in deadlock earlier this week it is these images that are likely to ankara ethiopia's neighbors downstream water has st

well, twitter now says in addition to 130 accounts like former president barack obama, former vice president joe biden and bill gates being compromised, hackers also accessed 36 direct messaging inboxes. now direct messaging pretty much like phone calls text messaging and it is considered to be private. the fbi continues to investigate that hack. we'll have much more for you right after the break. 4:53. dear california... we know these are challenging times. rest assured, you are not alone. we've all had to adapt. and with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. together, we can save energy and money. try closing your shades during the day... setting your ac to 78° or higher... or cooling off with a fan when you can. united we are always stronger. stay well, california, and keep it golden. for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? grubhub's gonna reward you for that with a $5 off perk. (doorbell rings) - [crowd] grubhub! (fireworks exploding) >>> 4:55 for you this morning and many people have been calling for this for months, but new calls t

network's most high-profile accounts including that of former president barack obama, democratic candidate joe biden, microsoft founder bill gatesitter said the hack targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. u.s. tech giant microsoft is reportedly0 in talks to -- reportedly in talks to buy tiktok. meanwhile, president trump is discussing an executive order to force tiktok out of the nation. >> tiktok bills itself as a digital playground, but now it is turning into a battleground between the u.s. and china. with americans suspicious of its owners, the beijing-backed app may have exploded in recent years, but not everyone is a fan . >> would you recommend people download the app on their phones tonight, tomorrow, any time currently? >> only if you want your privacy in the hands of the chinese communist party. >> the struggle over digital technology is intensifying. on the u.s. side, facebook, twitter, apple. on the chinese side, tiktok and chinese giant huawei also the target of a u.s. campaign. cartoons have been spreading in chinese media, this one depicting uncle sam, sis -- asserting the u.s. is th

president barack obama and democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft founder bill gates as well as some companies accounts like and apple twitter said the hackers targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. hong kong's legislative elections scheduled for september have been postponed for a year chief executive carrie lam says the delay is necessary due to a surge in coronavirus cases but opposition lawmakers aren't convinced they accuse the government of using the pandemic as a pretext to thwart the pro-democracy movement there. hong kong's election 4 years ago it should happen again in september but instead the poll has been pushed back by a full year not how sailing at the last but it was a very very difficult decision to postpone the legislative council election which takes place every 4 years but it's necessary to fight off the coronavirus to protect people's health and up hold public safety we also have to ensure the election process is fair and open. thing hype be say that. ironically to curb the pro-democracy protests on const chief executi

. >> now at 6:00, the biggest hack job in twitter's history, how elon musk, joe biden, barack obama, and bill gatesin an apparent bitcoin scam. >>> plus, while we endure a surge in cases, some good news tonight, the fight against covid may be slow. but progress is steady. the vaccines that are in the works. . >>> but first, our top story on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a stunning admission as the debate rages over students returning to classrooms. the school board president who admits distanced learning doesn't work. this evening we focus on whether students should return to classrooms. today san francisco unified school board announced plans to start all fall classes with distanced learning eventually the hope is to move to a hybrid approach. a mix of in-person classroomen learning and virtual instruction. the state superintendent of public instruction is urging districts to proceed with caution. >>> we believe that we can continue to monitor the data. should the data show that it's safe to do so. we want to open those schools for in-person instruction. i believe that that's the approach

accounts belonging to barack obama, joe biden, elon musk, bill gates and apple were among those hackedtcoin scam. the tweets were asking for people to sends $1,000 and then in return they would receive $2,000 back. many of the tweets were taken down within minutes but there are reports that more than $100,000 was already sent. twitter posted the tweet saying, they're aware of the security incidents and they're taking steps to fix it. >>> meanwhile, disaster looming for a cabrera transit agency because of the pandemic. today caltrans says it's on the brimpg of shutting down because of failing ridership and a failure to put it on the ballot. looking at the grim future of public transportation. >> it's been dead. no one has been on there. that's it. i'm like the only person on there. >> he commutes to work in redwood city, often alone on cal train. ridership is down 95% due to the pandemic. the station on king street is a ghost town. >> how bad is it for cal train right now? >> it's devastating. we're facing a fiscal cliff in october. the rail line may simply cease to exist. >> running be

among the high profile twitter accounts targeted, former president barack obama and vice president joe biden, bill gates, warren buffett, jeff bezos and michael bloomberg, also elon musk and kanye west, company twitter accounts were also hacked including apple and uber. the accounts or collective following of 300 million people. they tweeted similar messages, biden's tweet read i'm giving back to the community. % of the addresses below will be sent back double. if you send $1,000 i will send back $2,000. biden's campaign told fox twitter locked down the account immediately following the breach and removed the related tweet. remain in touch with twitter on a but for hours twitter released few updates only saying they were investigating a security incident and locking down verified accounts to prevent users from sharing the scam. the department of homeland security cyber division did not answer whether any government accounts were risk. the fbi san francisco field office told fox the accounts appear to have been compromised in order to perpetuate crypto currency fraud and advised public not to fall victim

the accounts include former president barack obama, joe biden, kanye west, bill gates, as well as companieshe hacked accounts were all promoting a bitcoin scam that appeared to net the hackers a considerable amount of money before twitter was able to freeze the accounts. and for more, i'm joined by nbc news reporter ben collins who knows this world very well and can explain to us, ben, exactly what happened here? >> i can explain a lot of it, but the weird thing is i can't explain the full amount of it yet because we don't really know yet. what it appears is that somebody has write access, which means they can write any tweet they want on any twitter. so what twitter has done in the interim is pause tweeting from verified accounts. they were twitting this bitcoin scam. two people for a couple of hours here. it was pretty much unstoppable. that's why they have paused that tweeting. we don't really know what happened yet. on the dark web there has been some rumblings that maybe somebody has access to the central console of twitter so somebody can look at anything and tweet anything. that is t

joe biden barack obama muska bill gates were compromised wednesday what appears to be a big scam the attack is likely the largest ever on twitter's security system and may have already cost users tens of thousands of dollars joining us now is a lot of all of lidle media to talk about this remarkable story that's really just now coming into us it sounds like they were using the names of these famous people to essentially do commercials for some guy who was trying to. bill for money from people on twitter i guess right. i like the way you call it do commercials or him well no this was one of the quick and by the way you know rick i'm not supposed to ever are act gleeful when somebody pulls off a scam but there's this sick part of us that whatever we hear about the bank robber or somebody who gets away with it we think well that's wrong but what he did was he happened to pick lee's people but not just anybody this is due to cream of the crop the blue chip blue check literally group of people and he didn't hit other people but he didn't hit the trump account wait a minute do you think. y

president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft founder and billionaire bill gates and the big firms including apple and google or twitter is investigating what it is called a major security breach as the hackers targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems and tools let's bring in spend her big now he's director of 4 international cyber security policy at the stifel noise on forth here in berlin thanks so much for joining us a span is my twitter account safe i think for knol it is safe again. but since you will it will be revealed in the next few days we know that the attackers had access to every twitter call and that they wanted to have access to every twitter account that means potentially everyone who has a twitter or uses twitter is tweeting today could be affected by this. could have been affected the breaches contained according to twitter what happened there was. we know right now basically social engineer or bribed workers employees of twitter and have them give them access to these accounts and then use them to make money should w

president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft founder bill gates and firms including apple and twitter is investigating the matter and has called it a major security breach it's a is the heck is targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. and we're joined by spin her pick he is the director for international cyber security policy at the shift don't know if i'm for to when they're laying eyes to see you so just how will these hackers able able to pull this off and who could have been behind that so as it looks right now it was really an authoritarian it was an incident where criminals convinced employees of twitter to hope to get access to all the other cones. so as it looks like it was criminals who do that to make some sense in south korea. right spent these target some of the most powerful people in the world right. is this really just a bit point scam or could there be more to this. so what we see right now owns those that do targeted in sense of they used their columns to publish this but if everything's correct then the crimin

president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft founder bill gates as well as some companies like apple and twitter said the hackers targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. u.s. tech giant microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy a video app to talk meanwhile president trump is apparently preparing an executive order to force tech talks chinese owner to sell its u.s. operations here's a look at a company that has come to embody the growing mistrust between u.s. and chinese tech giants. with a think $100000000.00 users top those itself as a digital playground but now it's turning into a box all grown between the u.s. and china. with american suspicious of its owners the be backed up may have exploded in recent years but not everyone is a fun. would you recommend that people download that up on their phones tonight tomorrow any time currently showing if you want your private information in the hands of the chinese government as part of. the struggle over digital technology is intensifying on the u.s. side facebook twitter and on t

the accounts include bill gates, jeff bezos, barack obama, joe biden and companies including apple and for. hackers sent tweets offering to send people $2000 for every $1000 sent to a bitcoin address. twitter said they are contacting the owners of the accounts. >>> group held a small rally in march to call attention to efforts to disband the police department. it was organized by the every 28 foundation. they say a person of color's life is taken every 28 hours. their mission is to reach every san francisco neighborhood with the message to disband the police department. >> we will be here until voices are heard, until changes made. until we put it to the people with a ballot measure, that is what we will do. >>> turning to pleasant hill where residents held in the arrest of a stolen vehicle suspect. the contacted police after seeing a man and a woman trying to break into cars. lisa they arrested the woman and recover the stolen pickup truck. the man got away. anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact pleasant hill police. he praised the president for help during a

people to send cryptocurrency appeared on the feeds of high profile names including joe biden, bill gates, barack obama and jeff bezos. verified users were temporarily stopped from tweeting. the compa ny‘s investigating. president trump's leading advisor on the coronavirus pandemic, dr anthony fauci, has described efforts by some in the white house to discredit him as bizarre. he said a series of attacks on him reflected poorly on the trump administration. china's revealed its gdp figures for the second quarter — showing a modest 3.2% growth in its economy after lockdown measures ended and policymakers stepped up stimulus packages.. it comes after a 6.8% decline in the first quarter — the first contraction since at least 1992 when its records began. the mayor of bristol has insisted that the future of the space once occupied by the statue of the slave trader edward colston must be decided on by the people of the city. the space has been replaced by the figure ofjen reid —— a black lives matter protester. the installation was not done with permission as our correspondent jon kay reports. undercover and

and joe biden, barack obama, bill gates and elon musk just some of the prominent people targeted by what twitter is calling a coordinated a social engineering attack. >>> good to have you with us. covid-19 cases in the united states have now averaged a staggering 60,000 people per day over the past week. three times what it was a month ago. ever since many governors rushed to reopen even though the virus is exploded in all but a handful of states, and hospitals and many hot spots are quickly getting overwhelmed. florida now has more confirmed cases than the u.k. at 300,000. more than 50 hospitals in the state say they are out of beds and yet some famous theme parks plan to reopen. texas recorded nearly 11,000 new cases on wednesday. a local hotel in the border town of laredo will be turned into a covid hospital as medical facilities there reach capacity. and facemasks now becoming more common across the united states. alabama and montana on wednesday joined three dozen other states in requiring face coverings in public. but even as the crisis deepens, the trump administration continues t

people to send cryptocurrency appeared on the feeds of high profile names including joe biden, bill gates, barack obamathe compa ny‘s investigating. president trump's leading advisor on the coronavirus pandemic, dr anthony fauci, has described efforts by some in the white house to discredit him as bizarre. he said a series of attacks on him reflected poorly on the trump administration. china's revealed its gdp figures for the second quarter — showing a modest 3.2% growth in its economy after lockdown measures ended and policymakers stepped up stimulus packages.. it comes after a 6.8% decline in the first quarter — the first contraction since at least 1992 when its records began.

>> the president wasn't involved but joe biden, barack obama, bill gates, all of these high-profile people were hacked. talk about the implications as we get closer to the november election. >> right. what happened is someone launched a social engineering attack against a twitter employee and somehow belated the system to impersonate these people. and i remember a number of years ago, the associated press's account, in fact, about the white house being bombed, and it affected the stock market. the dow jones dropped as a result of this fake tweet supposedly coming from lapd. given the president and other powerful people use twitter for official types of purposes, it's scary to think of what could be said, and the implications. this is a financial scam, but there could be other scams including political. >> this was kind of centered around crypto currency. you mentioned possible election interference, and also stock market minute ocean. larry? how do these hackers hijack, how are they able to hijack these high-profile accounts? >> as i understand it, they did a social engineering attack, pro

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people to send cryptocurrency appeared on the feeds of high profile names including joe biden, bill gates, barack obamand jeff bezos. verified users were temporarily stopped from tweeting. the compa ny‘s investigating. president trump's leading advisor on the coronavirus pandemic, dr anthony fauci, has described efforts by some in the white house to discredit him as bizarre. he said a series of attacks on him reflected poorly on the trump administration. china's revealed its gdp figures for the second quarter — showing a modest 3.2% growth in its economy after lockdown measures ended and policymakers stepped up stimulus packages.. it comes after a 6.8% decline in the first quarter — the first contraction since at least 1992 when its records began. now on bbc news, hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. it is not clear when or even if israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, will deliver on his pledge to annexe a major chunk of the occupied west bank. even less clear is how the palestinians will respond if that happens. well, my guest today is the palestinian ambassad

. >> before twitter discovered the stand targeting the likes of joe biden, barack obama, bill gates and others, hackers pulled in more than $100,000 worth of bit coin unsuspecting followers. >> they are lucky. that whoever managed to get this access and carry out the scam seems to have only wanted money. not to carry out say information in the campaign or start world war iii. >> experts more in a security breach like this could create a global financial catastrophe. jeopardize national security, and even impact our election. >> they could have taken the voice of let's say some of the stock market and given information and they could've sold these access to a number of places to foreign intelligence agencies, tweet something awful from one of the presidential candidates. >> the white house says the president's twitter feed was not compromised. >> the president will remain on twitter but his account to secure it and not jeopardize during the attack. >> fbi leading a federal inquiry into the hack and senator josh hawley calling on twitter ceo to "take any necessary measures to secure the s

among them, joe biden, barack obama, kim kardashian, bill gates, jeff bezos, elon musk.d tweets asking followers to send money to a bitcoin address, and they got some. the attack lasted for a little over four hours as twitter struggled to gain control of the situation. the ceo jack dorsey now blames it on a coordinated social engineering attack. with the election over four months away, the incident is raising serious questions. today, it's a bitcoin scam. is twitter and social media platforms like it, are they prepared for hackers who might have a political agenda? with me is alex stamos who served as chief security officer at facebook and also an msnbc cybersecurity analyst. great to see you. so put this in plain language for those of us who don't know this stuff as well as you do. what exactly is a coordinated social engineering attack? >> social engineering is a fancy phrase we use in security to mean that a human being was tricked into doing something that they were not supposed to do. usually when you talk about social engineering, you're talking about somebody bein

the account of joe biden and barack obama, bill gates and many more posting similar messages, i'm giving community. all bit coin since the address below will be doubled. i will be doing this for 30 minutes. obviously a scam. twitter began taking down the messages but in some cases they popped back up again, leaving twitter powerless whatever investigation several employees had access had their information passwords breached that allowed hackers a window to get in. the ceo posted this message we feel terrible this happen and we will share everything we can with a more complete understanding of what happened but this isn't over. this is rough news for twitter because data privacy is of paramount importance so you lose credibility on high profile folks, that is not good. rob: some kind of inside job as this is being alleged, we will see. doritos giving you 150 grand and putting you on tv. >> what you used to do with this is the same thing. this new challenge, big reward called crash from home, similar to the old crash the super bowl campaign. running the commercials in the super bowl, stuck