The hackers who made the MONEY HEIST series a reality.

Praveen Kumar Chandran
2 min readJul 31, 2020

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The role of internet usage in daily life has greatly increased. In addition, the corona announced by this corona is the color of the various studies published on the Internet drowning.

At the same time spending more time on the internet increases the security vulnerability during this corona period than on normal days. Due to that, there is an increase in the activities of hackers.

As such, the official Twitter accounts of various celebrities around the world were hacked on, July 15. It has hacked the Twitter accounts of many leaders, millionaires, and celebrities, including former US President Barack Obama, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and US presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The tweets were posted on the Twitter accounts of hacked celebrities to spread ads for Bitcoin. It states that a donation of cryptocurrencies will be made and that if $ 1,000 is given, it will be doubled to $ 2000.

Former US President Barack Obama said on his Twitter account, “I am going to give everything back to my community because of Corona. I will return twice the amount of bitcoins sent to me. ” Tweets thus hacked and posted were deleted within minutes.

Commenting on this, the Twitter administration said, “We have learned the news about the unfortunate incidents that took place on the Twitter accounts. We are investigating the matter and are taking action. “ As mentioned. In the aftermath, many Netizens have been teasing memes about the status of their official Twitter accounts.

Also, there are fears about the safety of Twitter among many celebrities through this event. This is because there is a belief among all social media users that every post posted on Twitter will be authentic. As such, the accounts have been hacked, prompting dissatisfaction on Twitter.

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