The story behind breach of security in Twitter

Micro-blogging website Twitter witnessed a major security breach with accounts of several high profile celebrities from all walks of life getting hacked. The hacked account posted messages asking followers to cough up cryptocurrency. The accounts hacked included those belonging to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Waren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and others. The corporate accounts for Uber and Apple were also hacked.