Obama and Biden’s Twitter accounts were compromised. It could have been way worse.

Former President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Joe Biden have been compromised. They’re part of a major Twitter hack targeting public figures and politicians. 

Considering the influence that political figures — one in particular — wield on Twitter, the world is lucky that all the people behind this seem to want is bitcoin. 

So far, they’ve also hijacked the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Uber, Apple, and other celebs, companies, and major players in the cryptocurrency world. The compromised accounts are trying to get people to send them bitcoin.

It’s not clear what is happening. Even security experts are confused. The hack is also ongoing: Elon Musk’s account has published and deleted the same tweet promoting the crypto scam multiple times over the past hour.

And that brings us to President Donald Trump, who uses Twitter to announce national and foreign policy, which makes this situation even more terrifying. Imagine if hackers wanted to cause more serious damage.

In many cases, the tweets were only up for minutes. But that was enough time to do damage: scammers have already made more than $50,000 from people who sent bitcoin. What consequences c