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Twitter: $121,000 Lost, 130 Accounts Affected by Bitcoin Hack

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Twitter: $121,000 Lost, 130 Accounts Affected by Bitcoin Hack

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) released further details of the hack it experienced Wednesday afternoon. The microblogging platform announced that the hackers made off with $121,000 worth of bitcoin as a result of the attack.

The hackers accessed high-profile accounts to post Tweets soliciting donations of $1,000 in bitcoin from followers. The text of the Tweets promised that any donors would receive back double that amount. The hackers included a donation page link that was supposedly live for 30 minutes following the postings.

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