Cybersecurity incident — 2020-07-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: Twitter
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Financial
Actor: Graham Ivan Clark
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

A number of high profile Twitter accounts, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, are hijacked to promote a bitcoin scam. The author of the hack is arrested by the FBI two weeks later.