---
title: "Someone Apparently Just Hacked Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Kanye West"
description: "Someone appears to have hacked the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Kanye West."
date: "2020-07-15"
modified: "2020-07-15"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/someone-hacked-elon-musk-and-others"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Jeff Bezos"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "hack"
  - "the digest"
  - "twitter"
---

# Someone Apparently Just Hacked Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Kanye West

![Someone appears to have hacked the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Kanye West.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/someone-hacked-elon-musk-and-others.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Pexels\</em\>*

## God Mode

Someone appears to have hacked the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Kanye West and a dazzling array of other celebrities, business magnates, politicians and other public figures. They even somehow accessed the account of Apple, which has never tweeted before.

The accounts are all posting similar messages, which promise that if you send bitcoin to a certain address, they'll send double back — a classic scam.

![Image](<https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec_riZFWkAErBHA?format=png&name=900x900>)

## Easy Marks

Sure, it seems like an obvious ruse. But people on the internet aren't particularly bright, and it looks like people have sent at least $100,000 to the address in the scam.

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1283511641452220416

## Tug of War

It's difficult to believe that tech figures like Musk and Bezos, nevermind public figures like Biden and West, wouldn't have two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts. That makes the hack doubly impressive, because it means that the attackers somehow figured out not only their credentials but a way to access their text messages as well.

At press time, it appears that Musk is still struggling to control his own account, with earlier messages disappearing even while new ones appear.

**READ MORE:** [Crypto scammers hack Elon Musk, Apple and Bill Gates on Twitter](<https://www.engadget.com/crypto-scammers-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-204011058.html>) *\[Engadget\]*

**More on Twitter:** *[Twitter Verifies Fake Congressional Candidate Invented by Teen](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-verifies-fake-congressional-candidate>)*

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net>)