Hello. The twitter account of major figures in countries including barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionairejeff barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionaire jeff blazers barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionairejeff blazers have been hacked in what appears to be a large scale and coordinated attack. Twitter is still investigating and in the past half an hour it appears that some users are now able to send tweets again. The accounts of elon musk, bill gates and the Apple Corporation were among those affected. As you can see, the account of barack obama contains a post asking for bitcoin and giving back to the community, it is clearly a scam. Other hacked accounts that are verified displayed similar messages. Let us speak now to hacking officer for Cyber Security specialist who was jailed for hacking in the 1990s. What do you make of this, this was someone who wa nted make of this, this was someone who wanted to be noticed . It would have been much more effective
Good evening. Twitter says it still hasnt restored a full service for all users, after a major hacking attack on the network that targeted high profile figures. The head of twitter, jack dorsey, said the company felt terrible about what had happened, and was investigating the incident. The hack was directed at famous figures and Companies Including barack obama, jeff bezos, kanye west and uber. 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. Im giving back to my community, due to covid 19. All bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled. If you send 1000, i will send back 2000, only doing this for the next 30 minutes. Enjoy. High profile political figures were also targeted, including barac
Hello. There appear to be fresh tensions between house and americas most senior Infectious Diseases expert, Anthony Fauci. Dr fauci, a key figure in the White House Coronavirus task force, has given an interview to the magazine the atlantic. In it, a journalist asks. Dr fauci responds. Today, President Trump was asked for his view on dr fauci. Were all on the same team, including dr fauci. I have a very Good Relationship with dr fauci. And were all on the same team. We want to get rid of this mess that china sent us. So, everybodys working on the same line and were doing very well. Were doing well in a lot of ways and our countrys coming back very strong. When you look at those job numbers weve never had job numbers like we have right now. So its coming back very strong. All this as the number of cases continues to rise across the United States. A further 67,000 cases and 900 deaths have been recorded just in the last 2a hours. There are new outbreaks in alabama, in nevada north caroli
Major celebrities twitter accou nts major celebrities twitter accounts have been hacked in what appears to be a large scale and coordinated attack. Twitter says officially it is still investigating the issue and in the past half an hour it does appear that some users are now able to send tweets again. The accounts of elon musk, bill gates and the Apple Corporation are among those affected and as you can see the account of barack obama contains a post asking for bitcoin in giving back to the community. This is clearly a scam, all verify with the blue tech displayed similar messages. Let us speak now to executive Vice President of the Security Company in palo alto california. Thank you for your time. What you make of this . It really does underscore the complexity of the systems we depend on, there are administrative tools on twitter that humans need access to and when they have been compromised they have massive consequences. As you count ourselves fortu nate as you count ourselves fort
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 before sunrise, artist marc quinn and his team erected their statue without permission. On the plinth where slave trader Edward Colston stood until last month, they installed a resin replacement of a local womanjen reid. It was inspired by this photo of her taken during the black lives matter protests. Out with the old and in with the new. And i think thats that statue, putting aside it being myself, it definitely says colston is no more and its time for change, time to move on. People of my colour walking past that statue and knowing that change is happening and it will continue to happen. When crowds pulled down colstons statue and threw it into the citys docks, it p