and hijacked barack obama bill gates and iraq masks are among the high profile faintest whose twitter accounts were used by had to post fake tweets asking people for money . and asked spain pauses to remember the lives lost to the girl in a fire as we have from brussels and how did your opinion hopes to strengthen unity in the wake of the pending. past hundreds of thousands of india's migrant birth business their jobs in the cities to pave the road a virus now back home they struggle to feed their families. and to walk into the program a course in turkey has sentenced german to his chair in the stennis yourself to. a 9 months in prison for spreading what turkish law defines as terrorist propaganda who lives in germany and was sentenced in absentia denies the charges against him his case has already put a strain on german turkish relations. the trial of dennis you jail has lasted more than 10 years and finally the court in east ambuhl has delivered a verdict the german turkish journalist has been found guilty of spreading propaganda on behalf of a terror group you jails lawyer very set

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

that's targeted the accounts of high profile figures including barack obama bill gates and master fake tweets asked people for bitcoin donations twitter is calling it a major security breach. that's it from me and then you seem to now presumably have opted for you at the top of the out there you can also search that on our website. i'm god of those in berlin coming up next one of the johns and the covert 19 specials are staging. after hauling 9000 cases are spiking again in some regions and the fears of a 2nd wave are real the list of authorities around the world reimposing coronavirus ling to knock downs is growing california has banned going to bars and eating inside in restaurants. then you normally 1st register your personal details and take a temperature check before you can enter a cafe in jerusalem student undef near story that the number of coronavirus cases is once again prizing sharply she lost her part time job during the lockdown in march and april now she's facing renewed uncertainty. but i'm afraid of the health issues and the economic situation students are getting infec

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 wa

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it's investigating how hackers hijacked the twitter accounts of high profile people like barack obama bill gates and musk. and as the number of corona virus infections in the u.s. passes 3 and a half 1000000 state and stores take the lead in requiring people to wear masks. in sport ramadan have just won the spanish league title for a record 34th time a victory over the l'oreal seldom secure the championship with a game to spare. russian cyber spies have been accused of trying to steal research on a possible coronavirus vaccine the u.k. u.s. and canada say hackers who are part of russian intelligence services are attacking research institutions trying to develop a vaccine the british government also says it has evidence of russia interfering in its $29000.00 general election the kremlin has denied the allegations charlie angela has more than. it's a global race to find a vaccine for couvade 19 and one country is accused of trying to cheat. the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center says russian hackers known as a p t 29 the jukes or cozy have tried to infiltrate coronavirus facilities to steal thei

fast tracked and hijacked barack obama bill gates. among the high profile figures whose twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your. office welcome to the program in the last hour a court in turkey a sentence german turkish journalist. then as usual to 2 years and 9 months in prison for spreading was turkish law defines us terrorist propaganda michelle who lives in germany and was sentenced in absentia he denies the charges against him in had already been held in a turkish prison for a year without being charged before being allowed to return home his case put strains on german turkish relations. of a war that story let's go straight to our correspondent julia han in istanbul what exactly does the verdict say. well 1st of all this verdict is another blow to press freedom here in turkey and it's absolutely no good news to other journalists and foreign reporters including myself in is you joe was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail today for and i quote spreading terrorism pro

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and packed in hijab barack obama bill gates and moscow are among the high profile figures to use twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your account. classic german novel as a 21st century make over a new film based on the epic book alexandre plots tells the story of an undocumented migrant who tries to build a life in germany's capital but gets caught up in the criminal on the. m gallop as well come to spain is how the state ceremony to pay tribute to corona virus victims and medical workers but the national struggle is far from over spain again faces a surge in cases and an e.u. fund that could prove a lifeline for the country's battered economy is still not certain what today's focus was not on the future. it was about remembering the 10s of thousands the nation's lost. it's been a difficult time for us country king sleeping and his wife queen the t.c. presided over the solemn and dignified ceremony for the trainee 8000 spanish victims of the coronavirus. or usually get on showed what emotion can restore memo to you today is a day

also coming up hijacked barack obama bill gates and moscow are among the high profile figures whose twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your account. hundreds of thousands of india's mind migrant workers left their jobs in the cities to flee the coronavirus now back home they struck 2 feet that found. a classic german novel 21st century make up a new film based on the novel bellino that sums up plots tells the story undocumented migrant who tries to build a life and germany's capital but gets caught up in the criminal underworld. of his welcome to the program spain has been paying its respects to those who have died during the corona virus pandemic it is one of the hardest hit countries worldwide with covert 900 claiming at least 28000 lives at the royal palace in madrid. phillipa and community joins members of the government and their families of sorrow and the families of some of the victims in a solemn ceremony e.u. leaders also attended sending a sign of solidarity ahead of a summit on friday i would still discuss a controversial

says it is investigating how hackers hijacked twitter accounts of high-profile people like barack obama, bill gatesand in all and -- and elon musk. the u.s. records more than 3.5 million coronavirus infections. dates and stores take the lead in requiring people to wear masks. spiraling outbreak. anger at the president as the coronavirus case count crosses 2 million. russian cyber spies have been accused of trying to steal research on a possible coronavirus vaccine. sayu.k., u.s., and canada hackers who are part of russian intelligence services are attacking research institutions trying to develop vaccine area the british government says it has evidence of russia interfering in his 20 general election. the kremlin has denied the allegations. charlie andrew has more. charlie: -- >> it is a global race to find a vaccine for covid-19. nationals cybersecurity center says haveen hackerers known as -- tried to infnfiltrate coronavirs facilities to steal their work. britain, the u.s., a and canada, whose research into possible vaccines is quickly advancing, have all been targeted. theo be targeting interna

it's investigating how hackers hijacked the twitter accounts of high profile people like barack obama bill gates and iran musk. and the u.s. records more than 3 and a half 1000000 coronavirus infections states and stores take the lead in requiring people to wear masks. and brazil's spiralling outbreak anger at the president as the coronavirus case count crosses 2000000. and a russian cyber spies have been accused of trying to steal research on a possible corona virus vaccine the u.k. u.s. and canada say hackers who are part of russian intelligence services are attacking research institutions trying to develop a vaccine the british government also says it has evidence of russia interfering in its 2019 general election the kremlin has denied the allegations charlie angela has will. it's a global race to find a vaccine for couvade 19 and one country is accused of trying to cheat. the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center says russian hackers known as a p t 29 the jukes or cozy have tried to infiltrate coronavirus facilities to steal their work britain the u.s. and canada whose research into possible

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

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may have made any excess of $100000.00 the hackers managed to tweet as figures including barack obama biden bill gates asking follow us to send them a bit coin. 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 year on year higher than experts forecast it suggests there could be hope for a rapid recovery elsewhere in the world however the 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 had only been sold a few months earlier now it sells basically everything it's 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. 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 it's estimated that

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twitter the target of a massive hack attack has dozens of high profile accounts among them barack obama, bill gates, jeff bezos and the corporate accounts of uber and apple. they said they would double any payment to a bitcoin address twitter still looking into it and describes it as a social engineered attack at twitter employees who had access to internal systems fbi is leading an inquiry into the hack and just a few minutes ago, senate republicans requesting an you aurgent brief from the company steve, great to have you with us >> hey, melissa. >> socially engineered attack. that's fancy way of saying the hackers got to individual twitter employees in order to gain access. >> exactly it could mean they e-mailed them and tricked them into sharing their log in credentials so the hackers could access the tool that enabled them to send the bitcoin tweets from various accounts there's reports coming out informs an inside job. the employees were in on the hack and had been paid to help these hackers access these accounts that is what's really scary to me here is it's not so much as technical security

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

onjuly 15 that took over the accounts of high profile figures — including former president barack obama and bill gatesd mason sheppard from west sussex in the uk, and 22—year old nima fazeli from orlando in florida. the third person is a juvenile and has not been named. let's get more from our technology reporter chris fox who'sjoining me live. hello. good to see you. what more do we know about this hack? twitter actually today has explained a little bit more about how the attackers got access into the system. they said it was a spear phishing attack. phishing attacks are those ones that most of us have probably experienced where somebody will send you an e—mail or text message saying that urgent action needed on your account, please click this link and feeling your information or maybe you get a suspicious e—mail saying did you order the hundreds of dollars worth of products. that is a phishing attack. a spear fishing attack is a more targeted version of that. the attackers make no some information about two perhaps the name of your bank and your username, so they can send you a much more convincing

users that people come to see and read, people like elon musk or kanye west orjoe biden, barack obama, bill gatesn a daily basis, and the fact that twitter couldn't keep that secure is a massive issue for them. experts say they could see more than $100,000 worth of bitcoin was deposited into the scam account. once it is there, victims cannot get it back. the twittersphere blew up about the hack. the incident began trending. tens of thousands of users used the hashtag hacked. alanna petroff, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... the economic impact of coronavirus — the number of uk workers on payrolls falls by nearly two thirds of a million since before the lockdown. nearly a third of uk businesses expect to cutjobs in the next three months, according to a survey by the british chambers of commerce. hackers target twitter, breaking into the accounts of some of the biggest names on the platform, including elon musk, barack obama and joe biden. a ceremony has been taking place in the spanish capital madrid to remember the country's 28,000 victims of the coronavirus pandemic. the royalfamily and pol

amongst those targeted were barack obama and bill gates.counts, asking people to make donations to a bitcoin cryptocurrency account. technology experts say the scale and profile of the security breach could pose real problems for twitter. this is a serious security issue for twitter. i mean, these are power users. these are users that people come to see and read. people like elon musk or kanye west orjoe biden, barack obama, bill gates, these are figures which use that platform on a daily basis and the fact that twitter could not keep that secure is a massive issue for them. a record amount of companies in the uk plan to cutjobs over the next three months, according to a landmark survey by the british chambers of commerce. official unemployment figures will be released later, but there are already concerns from analysts that they won't be a true reflection of the crisis. citizens advice say it now takes a call every two minutes from someone seeking advice on redundancies. the mp, julian lewis, has been kicked out of the conservative party a

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. >>> twitter accounts belonging to a whole lot of famous people, former president barack obama, bill gatesl-known names hacked in a huge hackett of cryptocurrency scam as well. it's been called a coordinated social engineering chance. >> i don't have to tell you the significance of being able to breach the twitter accounts with many millions of followers including several politicians three months from a presidential election. what do we know about who did this and why? >> yeah. this is an historic attack. the biggest i think security incident that twitter has ever faced. as you mentioned, vice president joe biden's account also being part of this. twitter said last night that one of their employees or at least one of their employees had been targeted by a social engineering attack. now, what that means is rather than these hackers just hacking into obama's account. hacking into biden's account and elon musk's account they had actually hacked into a twitter user's account, a twitter employee's account who had master controls and then those hackers were then able to use that control to take

>> 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

. >> 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

barack obama and joe biden. let's stay with that headline story. the names on the list could hardly be bigger. joe biden, jeff bezos, the owner of amazon, barack obama, elon musk of tesla fame, bill gatesir twitter accounts, with bogus offers of big bitcoin pay—outs to their followers. the head of twitter, jack dorsey, said the company felt terrible about what had happened, and was investigating the incident. alanna petroff has the latest. famous tech billionaires can buy themselves almost anything, but it seems no amount of money will help with cyber security. elon musk, jeff bezos, and bill gates were all victims of a major hack on twitter. their popular accounts were used to promote a cryptocurrency scam, sending out tweets like this. high—profile political figures were also targeted, including barack obama, joe biden and former presidential hopeful mike bloomberg. married mega celebrities kim kardashian and kanye west also compromised. this wasn't about fraud, i don't think, i think it was more about, you know, doing the hack. in the hacker community, we would actually call those type of hacks a little bit lame. twitter quickly took action. the scam tweets were removed, the company

high-profile accounts, including those of former vice president joe biden, former president barack obama, bill gatescovers this information, extremism and the internet for nbc news. what can you tell us about who was behind this hack? this could not be to pull off a bitcoin scam. 300 grand? >> yes, if these are small-time criminals they're bad at it. they had the opportunity of a lifetime here. they had access to the back end of twitter. they could tweet from anyone's account in the world. they those barack obama, joe biden, elon musk, really famous people, and they drove everyone to a bitcoin account and made pretty much instantly 100 grand and probably more after that. what we do know is that this could have substantially changed and altered democracy if they wanted to do it. they could have started some serious unrest, but they did it for money and the way they did it is they took over twitter said somebody socially engineered one of their employees to tweet some of their stuff. whether that means that they convinced an employee to do something or whether they convinced the employee to hand over

former vice president joe biden, former president barack obama, bill gates, kim kardashian, lone muskbloomberg. the list goes on. and also some of the world's biggest companies, including apple and uber. now, all of these accounts, all of their accounts posted to hundreds of millions of followers, links to a boyitcoina cryptocurrency scam telling users to transfer money to a bitcoin wallet. this led twitter to shut off the accounts for several hours all across the world. late last night, twitter came out with a statement. obviously, they're investigating this and said that the hackers used a method called social engineering to target employees at twitter and used this access to take criminal of many highly visible, including verified accounts and tweet on their behalf. twitter says it's looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more as they have it. what twitter means here by social engineering is that at least one of his employees had been tricked or somehow convinced to give access to twitter's internal sy

the fbi is now investigating the hack of high profile twitter users including joe biden, barack obama, bill gatesn scam. joining me now is tony rom, technology reporter for "the washington post." he's also an msnbc contributor. let's first deal with the russian hack first. sometimes it's made because they caught them and they're like we're going to catch you again. where does this one fall? >> right, we don't know exactly where this one falls. we certainly know that this organization called apt 29 by the security folks with ties to russia had certainly been taking a look at a lot of the research that's being put together on vaccines in the u.s. and in canada and the united kingdom. but what is not entirely clear is what exactly they did here. if they actually managed to get ahold of some of this information. now, all of that said, this probably did not come as much of a shock to folks given the fact that vaccine research is obviously so highly prized, but you know, it certainly left a lot of folks in the u.s. very concerned about what this means not only for coronavirus, but everything else wheth

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. >> 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

what if i told you besides some big names roped in like bill gates, barack obama, warren buffett, so many others, it must have been an inside job? that is pretty scary, after this hike! simon pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500! coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. they're off... in the kentucky derby. rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. touchdown! only mahomes. the big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. ♪. neil: you know it almost seems routine to say some other big entity had hack attacks. it's a little scary when it involves twitter. it is pretty scary when it involves big name accounts like barack obama, bill gates, joe biden, elon musk, 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 hacke

elon musk, bill gates and barack obama — some of the names whose twitter accounts have been taken overn a hack that's still ongoing. shocking scenes in south africa's hospitals. a bbc investigation reveals serious mismanagement in some of the country's covid hotspots. and a look at what's behind the recent heatwave in the siberian arctic and how that's affected weather in other parts of the world. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. we are covering all the very latest coronavirus developing here in britain and also globally. i'm kasia madera. we are going to start in the united states. nothing seems to be able to stop the rise and rise of covid—19 numbers there. a further 67,000 cases and 900 deaths have been recorded in the last 2a hours. there are new outbreaks in alabama, nevada and north carolina, which are all beginning to report a jump in cases. cases have surged in oklahoma too, and the state's governor, kevin stitt, has tested positive. he says he thinks he is the first state governor to get the virus. i feel fine. ifelt a little bit achy yesterd

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

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

pete, what do we know right now >> the accounts include those belonging to biden, barack obama, kanye west, bill gates and elon musk. the messages coming from the victims' accounts promised the recipients their money would be doubled if they send an amount in bit coins to a specific place several hundred people appear to have responded sending in tens of thousands of dollars. in a statement tonight twitter says it's aware of a security incident impacting accounts is investigating and taking steps to fix it and will update everybody shortly. twitter says tonight that users may be unable to tweet while it investigates, lester >>> all right, pete williams, thanks. >>> in minneapolis the family of george floyd sued that city today over his death in police custody as nbc news viewed unreleased body cam video that sheds new light on what happened before that encounter turned deadly here's gabe gutierrez. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: almost two months since the eyewitness video sparked a global movement today for the first time previously unreleased police body camera footage showed that george floyd tol

. >> 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

dozens of high profile accounts, including those of joe biden, barack obama, bill gates and elon muskers posted similar tweets, scamming users to send crypto currency to a bit county address which managed to receive more than $115,000. twitter removed the tweets shortly after being posted. the site also temporarily shut down verified accounts like the national weather service, which was silenced during a tornado watch in illinois. last night, twitter released a statement tweeting in part we detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal system and tools. we're looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and we'll share more as we have it. they were able to respond so quickly. the fbi said waits aware of the incident. let's bring in former fbi special agent and msnbc contributor clint wadds. clint, i go right to the election and i worry. talk to us about what you can tell us, what this means. >> i'm sure, you, mika, me, e

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

major pack of twitter fake messages appear on some of the most followed accounts including bill gates barack obama and a lot musk. and the shuttle for the 2022 world cup encounter is around sun for the 1st time there will be 4 matches a day in the group stages. but into the program egypt is seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it started to fill the reservoir of africa's largest dam on the blue nile ethiopians state television reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground renee salts dam had begun the $5000000000.00 project is the centerpiece of ethiopia's dared to become africa's biggest power exporter egypt and sudan the fear reduced water supplies downstream one didn't want the river down and until they reach an agreement with ethiopia last month egypt told the un it faces an existential threat from the down charles trafford reports now on the complex regional politics surrounding the project. it's taken 10 years to build and cost close to $5000000000.00 u g o p s flagship infrastructure project is a great source of national pride. but the grand ethiopian renaissance