said that hackers have contained -- obtain control of those of presidential critic candidate joe biden. musk --ashian and elon the story goes on to say that twitter's role of the critical communications platform for political candidates and public officials including donald trump has led to fears that have -- hackers could wreak havoc during the election or otherwise compromised national security. adam konner, a liberal think tank said on twitter, "this is instantly --d be infinitely worst -- infinitely worse on november 3." here is how it went down on the twitter support tag which tweets yesterday, "we are aware of the security incident impacting accounts on twitter. we are taking steps to fix it and will update everyone shortly." that was at 5:45 yesterday. 10:48 p.m., twitter support saying, our investigation is still ongoing. we detected what we believe to be a coordinate engineering attack by people who have successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools. we know they used this access to take control of highly visible including verified accounts an

presidential nominee joe biden musk and kim kardashian they tried to scam their followers into sending digital money known as bitcoin as a precaution twitter says it will continue to lock accounts that changed passwords in the past month. voter suppression is a contentious issue in the u.s. with an estimated $6000000.00 convicted criminals unable to vote some analysts say the system's pacifically targets african-americans who are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system are also 4 times more likely than any other racial group to be disenfranchised but actually going to reports now from iowa city. when eric harris isn't working as a cook at a homeless shelter or taking care of the 6 children his time is spent following a passion for news and politics yet harris hasn't been able to exercise his right to vote as an iowan who served time for marijuana an illegal gun possession and the looting police he is banned from voting for life i think people that have been convicted of felonies they never had a chance to the voice their opinions about how they feel those of peopl

presidential nominee joe biden musk and kim kardashian they tried to scam their followers into sending digital money known as bitcoin as a precaution twitter says it will continue to lock accounts changed passwords in the past month. court has canceled a data transfer deal between europe and the u.s. because of concerns the american government will snoop on people's personal information and the pact a lot of around 5000 companies including tech giants are just facebook to send data across the atlantic privacy activists have welcomed the ruling that business groups are worried that it will disrupt their operations alexia brian explains. the case was called facebook ireland and shrimps for words that could have major global implications sram says all the and privacy activist meke shrimps so were really really happy with his judgement he launched legal action against facebook and its european headquarters in ireland arguing his daughter wasn't protected when it was transferred to the social media giant servers in the us. the case went from ireland to europe's top court and knox and work w

presidential nominee joe biden musk and kim kardashian and now they try to scam followers into sending digital money known as bitcoin the leaders of serbia and kosovo of member talks for the 1st time in nearly 2 years european union officials have praised the 2 countries for resuming talks aimed at easing tensions syria has refused to recognize kosovo sovereignty as a declared independence in 2008 those are the headlines more news in a half an hour inside story is next. well i mean you know as a boy's own go to war again both sides blame each other for the fighting on the border come their decades of animosity the result this is it's a story. hello and welcome to the program on iran come on it's a conflict with roots dating back to the collapse of the soviet union armenia and azerbaijan have been in dispute over the new going to cut about region for decades it's recognized internationally as part of azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic armenian forces there war ended in a cease fire in 1994 but there's been regular battles near the border ever since both accuse each other triggering the

among them, barack obama, joe biden, elon musk, jeff bezos and warren buffett.berg europe tech editor joining us to discuss. how did this happen? >> at the moment, it was most likely caused by social engineering or human error, and essentially an outside party was able to gain access to internal tools used by twitter in order to basically post these messages , essentially simultaneously across a wide range of accounts. twitter has not come out and said step-by-step what has taken place. what it did do was try and prevent worsening impacts of what happened, which was unprecedented, in that it actually stopped the ability of anyone who had a verified twitter profile from tweeting anything for several hours. once things came back under control, those restrictions were lifted. guy: what does this mean for twitter's credibility? what does this mean for the medium-term? nate: for the medium-term it is very poor because all eyes are on upcoming elections. with that in mind, the ability of twitter to just switch off the tweeting potential of people with verified account

twitter accounts affected included president obama, joe biden, elon musk, kim kardashian, kanye west and bill gates. twitter said it was aware of a security incident impacting accounts and were investigating it. the body of tech ceo and entrepreneur fahim saleh was found apparently decapitated and dismembered in a flat in new york. mr saleh was the founder of bangladesh—based pathao and nigerian motorbike—sharing startup gokada. mit csail team demonstrated a robotic gripper with soft, sensistive fingers handling cables with dexterity. the team anticipates future applications could include surgical stitches and tying knots. finally, another robot companion made its debut this week. meet stretch rel designed by an ex—google employee, the 23—kilo robot can help with housework and even play with the dog. stretch is the first machine released by hello robot. now i don't know about you, but as face coverings are becoming a normal part of life, i have struggled to find one that fits and stays on. this slides off my nose, this one is baggy around the ears. so could a personalised sd printed

twitter accounts affected included president 0bama, joe biden, elon musk, kim kardashian, kanye west aware of a security incident impacting accounts and were investigating it. the body of tech ceo and entrepreneur fahim saleh was found apparently decapitated and dismembered in a flat in new york. mr saleh was the founder of bangladesh—based pathao and nigerian motorbike—sharing startup gokada. mit csail team demonstrated a robotic gripper with soft, sensistive fingers handling cables with dexterity. the team anticipates future applications could include surgical stitches and tying knots. finally, another robot companion made its debut this week. meet stretch re1. designed by an ex—google employee, the 23—kilo robot can help with housework and even play with the dog.

they include barack obama, joe biden and elon musk accounts the tweet would include a link asking users to donate via bitcoin. twitter is aware of the hack and is investigating it. so far no word on who was behind the scam. >>> the oakland zoo can reopen thanks to a variance. since the county is on california's coronavirus monitoring list, only outdoor worship services are allowed and indoor malls have to close starting today. >>> a live look from our exclusive sales force cameras. pretty hazy right now. we're at the san francisco bay and the east bay, winds carrying smoke from multiple fires our way. the largest is the mineral fire. it erupted monday in fresno county. it's exploded to 11,000-acres. containment is only 5%. and in san bonito county the coyote fire grew to 200-acres in a matter of hours. city council members passed sweeping reforms that will reshape the police department. most notably, officers will no longer pull people over for traffic stops. berkeley will become the first city to put that job in the hands of unarmed city workers. the city says the idea is part of a lar

kim kardashian, barack 0bama, joe biden, elon musk, kanye west, michael bloomberg, to name a few. out, eve ryo ne few. what was being sent out, everyone was being asked on micro it does appear to be come at the moment, a scam, and twitter have said, we are a pairof us get twitter have said, we are a pair of us get —— we are away. this is obviously a huge structural hack. the mine only boggles and what they could have said. these are hugely influential people. people like barack 0bama, joe biden, so a huge, unprecedented attack. i've never heard anything like it. and at the moment, twitter have locked verified accounts. as ofa have locked verified accounts. as of a few hours ago, it has not been fixed, so this is a huge issue for twitter. james, it doesn't say much for twitter security, does it? no, quite. we have heard of hacks before, but it's the fact how large scale this is. all of these hugely influential, usually powerful people have all been hacked to stop all of their accou nts hacked to stop all of their accounts have been hacked. and the other thing i would say is that it

big offer just too good to be true famous faces have their accounts hacked from kenya west to joe biden elon musk to jeff bezos it's red faces all round then at the social site you get more that one today anytime you like at r.t. dot com. finally for now residents in the ruined ancient iraqi city of mosul have a new battle on their hands after emerging from the shadow of what was the former stronghold of the self-proclaimed islamic state now they're having to deal with a pandemic just like all of us but for them it's particularly tough means some are again risking their lives. the snaps my job is to help people stay positive give them the best available treatment and make sure that they get through this as well as possible. and we want to make sure an 11 day a lockdown doesn't turn into something much more anger. people have grown used to the daily risk of death there is a sense of fatigue we need to give people a sense of hope during the lockdown. well i've seen those pictures are still a terrible mess that i was in that well so i think looking so farther south to do from moscow i'm kevin owen t

twitter accounts affected included president 0bama, joe biden, elon musk, kim kardashian, kanye westit was aware of a security incident impacting accounts and were investigating it. the body of tech ceo and entrepreneur fahim saleh was found apparently decapitated and dismembered in a flat in new york. mr saleh was the founder of bangladesh—based pathao and nigerian motorbike—sharing startup gokada. mit csail team demonstrated a robotic gripper with soft, sensistive fingers handling cables with dexterity. the team anticipates future applications could include surgical stitches and tying knots. finally, another robot companion made its debut this week. meet stretch rei. designed by an ex—google employee, the 23—kilo robot can help with housework and even play with the dog. stretch is the first machine released by hello robot. now, i don't know about you, but as face coverings are becoming a normal part of life, i have struggled to find one that fits and stays on. this slides off my nose, this one is baggy around the ears. so could a personalised 3d printed one like this be the solutio

twitter accounts affected included president obama, joe biden, elon musk, kim kardashian, kanye westware of a security incident impacting accounts and were investigating it. the body of tech ceo and entrepreneur fahim saleh was found apparently decapitated and dismembered in a flat in new york. mr saleh was the founder of bangladesh—based pathao and nigerian motorbike—sharing startup gokada. mit csail team demonstrated a robotic gripper with soft, sensitive fingers handling cables with dexterity. the team anticipates future applications could include surgical stitches and tying knots. finally, another robot companion made its debut this week. meet stretch rei. designed by an ex—google employee, the 23—kilo robot can help with housework and even play with the dog. stretch is the first machine released by hello robot. now i don't know about you, but as face coverings are becoming a normal part of life, i have struggled to find one that fits and stays on. this slides off my nose, this one is baggy around the ears. so could a personalised 3d printed one like this be the solution? out of

cohen offer just too good to be true famous faces have had their accounts from county west joe biden elon muskto jeff bezos it's red faces all round then the social sites get more about once a day at r.t. dot com but here on the t.v. side of things is kevin i would say thanks for watching hope you have a good day today wherever you today around the world reporting from moscow. thank you. the world is driven by. the bears thinks. we are here to ask. during the vietnam war u.s. forces. are in laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much it is especially the. country per capita. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country 200 i mean we cannot. even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago this is the us making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people need in that little. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what

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barack obama, joe biden, elon musk, apple, and many more. each tweet providing the public with a bitcoin address. which we've removed for this report. >> so the fact that so many of them were compromised at the same time, such a short period of time, leads people to think now that there is some administrative issue on the twitter side itself. >> reporter: dan ackerman was seen at classifies wednesday's hack as the biggest breach he's seen twitter tackle. the company posting, 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 systems and tools. twitter temporarily limited users' abilities to reset passwords and prevented verified accounts like my own from posting. >> when you endanger that platform and the trust that you presumably give to these so-called verified accounts, you know, that makes the platform much less useful for people. >> they're in trouble. there's no question about it. this is a big issue for them. this is a big deal. >>

barack obama, joe biden, elon musk, apple, and many more. each tweet providing the public with a bitcoin address. which we've removed for this report. >> so the fact that so many of them were compromised at the same time, such a short period of time, leads people to think now that there is some administrative issue on the twitter side itself. >> reporter: dan ackerman was seen at classifies wednesday's hack as the biggest breach he's seen twitter tackle. the company posting, 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 systems and tools. twitter temporarily limited users' abilities to reset passwords and prevented verified accounts like my own from posting. >> when you endanger that platform and the trust that you presumably give to these so-called verified accounts, you know, that makes the platform much less useful for people. >> they're in trouble. there's no question about it. this is a big issue for them. this is a big deal. >>

accounts of several major global figures have been hacked in a crypto currency scam barack obama joe biden and elon musk were among those with accounts hijacked by scammers posting tweets to dupe people into making big donations the tweets told users of the social media platform they had 30 minutes to send $1000.00 in back when donations in order to double their money twitter temporarily stopped many verified accounts from tweeting and said it was looking into the instead and. well our reporter our pardon so as he has. following this story for us about how did this happen well it's believed that a hacker or group of hackers and very adept ones at that were able to get past the cyber security system of twitter and then from there they were able to get into the individual accounts of some very well off people the names of which you have mentioned already just for an example and then they made a bogus post saying you know what limited time offer you can double your money and so a number of people fell for it and you know it's a blow to to it to twitter frankly and what has twitter's reaction been to this i

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presidential nominee joe biden ilam musk and kim kardashian they've tried to scam their followers into sending gentle money known as bitcoin a precaution twitter says that it will continue to lock accounts that changed passwords in the past month the u.s. attorney general says that americans have become overly reliant upon chinese goods and services including coronavirus protective equipment wm bars joined the growing chorus of u.s. officials publicly criticizing the chinese government he says it's in gauged in an economic blitzkrieg to support the u.s. as the world's preeminent superpower white house correspondent kimberly health reports. there's no question this is an administration that is angry over the fact that it has had a decimated economy looking for someone to blame accusing china of not being more transparent about covert 19 that of course is obliterated the jobs market in the united states when the us president in election year was hoping to rebound for a 2nd term as a result of what he saw as historic gains in the economy now that those have been wiped out we've seen that

twitter gets hacked and some of the accounts hacked, include those from joe biden, elon musk, barackto name a few of the names that were targeted here in what increasingly is looking possibly like an inside job. claudia cohen has been following all of this from saint cisco. what happened here? >> neal, twitter has been hacked before but never on this kind of a scale and while the company hasn't confirmed anything, one tech website suggests it was an inside job. you mentioned that joe biden and barack obama, elon musk, bill gates, just some of those that were targeted in the attack along with companies like uber and apple. focus tweets are urged their followers to send a thousand dollars in big point to a specific address, promising to double the contributions and return. hundreds of followers were duped in the scam is raked in more than a hundred thousand jet dollars. dollars. >> they could have given false information. they could have taken the voice of, someone say given to the stock market and giving false information. they could have had another public official and all of a sudde

barack obama, joe biden, elon musk, jeff bezos and warren buffett. another was michael bloomberg. it was an apparent attempt to promote a bitcoin scam. they sent out tweets promising to doubling the money within 30 minutes. twitter says it's investigating. the spike in the coronavirus outbreak has gotten worse in texas. the state reported its biggest daily number of cases. california had its second-worst day with more than 11,000 infections. public school students will not return to classrooms when the new term begins. global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> it isn't going to come in a one-shot assistance package from the european authorities. it's going to require a commitment to long-standing things we've all understood which is increasing productivity. jonathan: imf's first managing equity director. the euro very much and focus. we will hear from ecb president christine lagarde. european leaders in brussels. i'm jonathan ferro. and 12 minutes away from the open

we're talking about joe biden, barack obama, elon musk being hacked yesterday. currency was sent to a bitcoin address which managed to receive more than $15,000. twitter removed the tweet 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 this. we detected what we believed to be a coordinated social engineeing attack by people who targeted our employees with access to internal systems and tools. we're looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or accessed. we'll share more as we have it. the f fbi also said it was awar of the report as well. >>> also, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has been released from the hospital after being treated for an infection. a spokesperson said she was home and doing well. the 87-year-old went into the hospital in d.c. monday night with fee fehr and chills. she was sent to a horde at johns hopkins for a procedure to clean ou

breaking into the accounts of some of the biggest names on the platform, including elon musk, barack obama and joe bidenternational team of scientists concludes a prolonged heatwave in siberia this year is "unequivocal evidence of climate change". a sculpture of a black lives matter protester erected in bristol yesterday is taken down after it was installed without the knowledge or permission of the local council. and coming up in sport at 9:30am, england fast bowlerjofra archer is excluded from the second test against west indies for breaching the bio—secure protocols. good morning and welcome to bbc news, i'm annita mcveigh. official data suggests hundreds of thousands of uk workers have lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis. the office for national statistics revealed data showing that 649,000 people left company payrolls between march and june. the figures show 7a,000 fewer people on the paye register during june compared with the previous month. and the number of people claiming work—related benefits, including the unemployed, was 2.6 million. it comes as the british chambers of commerce wa

ahead, a massive hack of targeting twitters largest accounts, including presidential candidate joe biden. elon musk and kanye west we have the details ahead. >>> why education will be a key issue in the election and a disney downgrades. why the stock's magic is fadesing all thheis wn "power lunch" returns. in a highly capable lexus suv. at the golden opportunity sales event. get zero percent financing on all 2020 lexus models. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. on all 2020 lexus models. our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence. yeah, they help us with achievable steps along the way... ...so we can spend a bit now, knowing we're prepared for the future. surprise! we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. oooh, well... i'm good at my condo. oh. i love her condo. nana throws the best parties. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. >>> welcome back, everybody. here is your cnbc news update. the supreme court is leaving a lower court order in place which prevents convicted felons from voting in florida if they haven't paid al

they those barack obama, joe biden, elon musk, really famous people, and they drove everyone to a bitcoin100 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 haswords to do that yet we don't know that but it's defcon 1 serious hack. >> but ben, if this is a defcon 1 serious attack, do you really believe they did it for money? 300 grand and you hacked the likes of bill gates, mike bloomberg and jeff bezos in they blow their nose at 300 grand. was this more a warning that we've got an election coming up, and all this stuff is hackable? >> i would hope it's a warning. whether it was meant to be or not. if these are criminals, they're the dumbest criminals. it's like robbing a

pulling off a massive cyberattack on the social media platform targeting famous uses like joe biden, kanye west and elon musk as part of a larger operation:gop senators once it might be. >> kanye west in the west wing. the steps he took to get his name on the ballot one day after his campaign said he was calling it quits. "fox and friends" starts right now. ♪ >> great song for thursday morning and kanye west, keeping up with the kardashians. if you're having trouble keeping up the wests we are here to help you. thank you for watching "fox and friends first". jillian: good morning, thank you for starting the day with us. the white house preparing to send a message of law and order amid nationwide unrest. todd: donald trump hinting federal intervention could crackdown on the violence. a key endorsement in his run for reelection. good morning. >> the president likes to tease things, this could be quite significant. he says he will announce a federal law enforcement initiative focused on the violence spiraling out of control in cities across the country. unclear if it is an executive order or some sort of tempor

for an hour or so where we've seen the accounts of president obama, former vice president joe biden, elon muske people hacked. we know it's going on, yet there's no mechanism on the part of twit toter to shut it down ot do something about it akin to circuit breakers on the nyse or other measures is this going to highlight twitter's response or lack of response i don't know that we've seen a hack of this magnitude before. >> we have not seen this high profile. it is reminiscent to some things that happened many years ago, a decade plus ago with the internet as it was starting to formulate itself we'd see hacks or outages of critical things. what that exposed was greater security, greater reliability questions. i agree with you i think this will cause greater scruti scrutiny this is a little bit akin to cambridge analytics with facebook, something that brought up a lot of questions about how they're using data different general topic, but the basic concept of something that just kind of came out of nowhere and will be a source of scrutiny around twitter and facebook for some time, for potentiall

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

dorsey, criminals got ahold of the accounts of a bunch oft big wigs including barack obama, joe biden, elon muskthers. thank goodness they weren't trying to start a war. they were trying to pitch a bitcoin scam. twitter is too important for government and politics for this to happen. this seems to be an inside job. a twitter worker managed to get into the accounts and hand over controls to outsiders. this is a big problem. paul: dan. >> a miss to new york city, paul. the department of cultural affairs just released a report suggesting that the city's nonprofit cultural institutions have lost a half a billion dollars since the beginning of the virus. and laid off about 15,000 people. these are the institutions that make the city great. yet mayor bill de blasio keeps putting back their reopening. i'm afraid the famous big apple is turning into the crap apple. paul: yes, that is the case. that's itr for this week's show. thanks to my panel and thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here. arthel: president donal trump challenges his critics in an interview with chri

the twitter accounts of joe biden, elon musk, kanye west, and bill gates all said similar messages aftercompromised on what can only be described as a massive hack on the social media platform. twitter responded by locking the accounts of all verified users, the ones with the blue check mark. it's a category that includes most journalists, politicians and celebrities. keep in mind this is website the current president of the united states uses regularly to send out policy decrees, fire his own top aides or lash out at foreign leaders. of nuclear armed countries. and this hack today is not just some scam that happened because someone clicked a bad link in a suspicious e-mail. this level of access to protected social media accounts can only be pulled off to twitter's internal systems. so imagine something like this were to happen just before i don't know let's say a presidential election only instead of trying to scam people to send them bitcoin it was about deciding the fate of american democracy. an nbc news reporter and the first person i turn to for stories like this. ben, you've had a

including joe biden, pete williams is following all of it, 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 told officers at

new details on the hacking of 130 high-profile accounts including former president obama, joe biden, elon muskill gates. the hackers set up a phishing scam resetting pass words for 45 of those accounts and sent out tweets asking people for bitcoin payments promising to double their money. authorities are still contacting the owners of some of those accounts. >>> new details several states are trying to jump-start a transition to electric powered trucks, vans and buses. this is video of tesla's electric big rig unveiling. you can see more of that soon. now 15 states are developing plans to allow them by the year 2050. california hopes to get there by 2045. >>> 6:17 for you that morning. and trending, the beyhive, well, they are abuzzing after beyonce dropped a new trailer of her new visual album "black is king." >> to be one and the same. and still unlike any other. >> her new full-length film was inspired by a recently released album "the lie yoon king the gi" "black is king" dropped on disney plus at the end of the month on july 31st. what a production there. >> yeah. >> it reminds me of -- w

its kind a coordinated attack targeting some of the biggest accounts on twitter, those of joe biden, elon muskll gates, barack obama and kanye west, among others all sending to their followers via the hackers, a note to send bitcoin. >> jimmy: don't worry. it was just practice for the election [ light laughter ] turns out the hacking was pretty easy since they all use the same password. illuminati123. [ light laughter ] meanwhile, you know trump's furious because they attacked the biggest accounts on twitter and didn't even include him. he's like, what, what, what? [ light laughter ] yep, joe biden was hacked. afterwards he was like, don't be fooled by this scam invest your money with a a nigerian prince instead. he's giving away free iphone 7's [ laughter ] turns out trump's account didn't get hacked because it has extra security that's right, trump has to type in a password, do an eye scan, and then insert two goya beans at the same time well guys, a new poll finds that trump's approval rating has hit an all time low of 36% yikes. i guess that explains why trump has decided to shake things u

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barack obama, joe biden and elon musk among those whose accounts were hacked promising money to anyoneng funds via bitcoin within 20 minutes. nate, do we have a rough idea yet of the timeline of how this played out given how sophisticated and likely closely coordinated it was? >> exactly. yes. we know the problem began, escalated and was shut down within a few hours yesterday. by twitter. which took as far as i'm aware a pretty unprecedented move in blocking the ability of anyone verified twitter account to tweet anything for hours. so this escalateseded quickly partly because over the significance over the individuals and the companies whose accounts were compromised. they all have millions of followers each. a massive potential breach and twitter happened to quickly jump in and essentially say all of these accounts need to have their ability to tweet revoked until they can get on top of the issue internally. yousef: that has already been a precarious time for big tech. what has twitter's response been? >> well, their response has been they are going to verdict internally what happene

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the accounts taken over of former president barack obama, vice president joe biden, elon musk, bill gatesthers. and we're finding out just in the past hour that in florida, in tampa this morning, a 17-year-old male, a teenager, arrested for the part that he allegedly played in this hack. what we're being told by prosecutors in florida is that this teenager is going to be charged we state prosecutors, rather than federal prosecutors because laws in florida make it easier for the state to charge minors as adults there in financial fraud cases like this. but just in case folks don't remember, this hack, of course, happened two weeks ago when we started seeing these tweets telling people to give money to bitcoin addresses with the false claim they would get double the money back. prosecutors alleging that about $100,000 was made as part of this scam. it is just really incredible, obviously, that a teenager could be involved in something that could pull this off and really i guess raises questions about twitter's security and the integrity of its platform. but on the other side, i think twitte

high-profile hack, scammers taking hold of top twitter account like elon musk, barack obama, joe biden and even kanye west in what is being called a coordinated attack to scam bitcoin. twitter shares sliding this morning as ceo jack dorsey laments tough day for platform. what went wrong and how to protect your account coming up, growing tensions with china, the trump administration visa restrictions for company employees. bank of america and morgan stanley among big banks reporting. dow component johnson & johnson right here. futures in the red. we are standing by for retail sales and jobless claims this morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern. stocks edging higher, investor sentiment over covid-19 vaccine pushing markets into the green. the dow industrials up 227 points, nasdaq up 62 and s&p up 29. the state of travel today airlines in the midst of a sharp downturn as pandemic fears keep travelers grounded at 7:30 a.m. eastern i'll be joined by ceo of delta edward bastian. plus this, drink up, how moderate alcohol consumption can protect against cognitive decline. mornings with maria is live rig

we are talking joe biden and barack obama, jeff bezos, elon musk.ally famous and well-known people all in those industries and the tweets are all asking for the same thing. they are asking people to send bitcoin to a specific digital wallet, and they are promising if you send me some bitcoin, i will double it and send it back to you. as hackers, this is a scam to get people to send stuff over. that is what all of the tweets are pretty much identical, saying the same thing, part of this scam. if you are a twitter addict, which most of us are in the media, it was a scary time in terms of twitter's response to this. >> it has been. we still do not know what the cause of this was. twitter said it is investigating the short time where it actually sends the ability to tweets -- it blocks the ability to send tweets from verified accounts. i have a verified account. i was not able to tweet. the fact that they do not know what happened and it is coming up on over an hour -- a couple hours since this has been going on. all of the most high-profile accounts on

twitter is an control mode after an unprecedented cyberattack targeted users, including elon musk, and joe bidenon wednesday. bitcoin scammers sent a series of tweets from influential users, leaving them scrambling to figure out what happened. to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. france's prime minister has announced masks are made mandatory enclosed public spaces starting next weweek. jean castex bringing forth augugust 1 start date, announced by the president. the french health minister says there are indicators infections arising. >> we arare following an array f indicators on what we are calling weak signals of the epidememic starting up again. calls to emergencycy services ad the numbers of hospital admissions. certain hospitals have these signals, and that is what i am asking the french people to stay attentive. we need to stay vigilant and active against the virus. p paid armitagege to the victims of the coronavirusus and the front-line workers who put their lives at risk during the pandemic. government officials and medical personnel were in attendance. are bacack inountry lockdown

said that hackers have contained -- obtain control of those of presidential critic candidate joe biden. muskian and elon the story goes on to say that twitter's role of the critical communications platform for political candidates and public officials including donald trump has led to fears that have -- hackers could wreak havoc during the election or otherwise compromised national security. adam konner, a liberal think tank said on twitter, "this is instantly --d be infinitely worst -- infinitely worse on november 3." here is how it went down on the twitter support tag which tweets yesterday, "we are aware of the security incident impacting accounts on twitter. we are taking steps to fix it and will update everyone shortly." that was at 5:45 yesterday. 10:48 p.m., twitter support saying, our investigation is still ongoing. we detected what we believe to be a coordinate engineering attack by people who have successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools. we know they used this access to take control of highly visible including verified accounts and twee

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

breaking into the accounts of some of the biggest names on the platform, including elon musk, barack obama and joe bidenternational team of scientists concludes a prolonged heatwave in siberia this year is "unequivocal evidence of climate change". king felipe of spain leads a ceremony to pay homage to the victims of the coronavirus and the moral strength of the country in tackling the crisis. england fast bowlerjofra archer is excluded from the second test against west indies for breaching the bio—secure protocols. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. official data has again highlighted the impact of the coronavirus crisis on jobs and likelihoods. —— jobs ——jobs and —— jobs and livelihoods. the office for national statistics revealed data showing that 649,000 people left company payrolls in the uk between march and june. the figures show 7a,000 fewer people on the paye register during june compared with the previous month. and the number of people claiming work—related benefits, including the