On July 15, unknown persons hacked many Twitter accounts and posted messages about fake bitcoin distribution in them. The accounts of Elon Musk, Barack Obama and other celebrities were affected. At the moment, the Twitter team, which responded to the hack with a noticeable delay, knows little.

Twitter employees with access to internal systems are said to have been victims of a coordinated social engineering attack. This allowed attackers to take control of many accounts, including verified ones.

Now Twitter is trying to figure out what other information hackers could get with access to private messages of users. Many observers have already stated that the distribution of bitcoins could only be a distraction, and the attackers' goal was information.

At the moment, Twitter has temporarily closed the hacked accounts and restricted access to internal systems as much as possible.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has promised to release the full details as soon as Twitter figures out how the hack was possible.

Chainalysis analyzed the attacker's BTC activity in a series of tweets.

He received about 12.86 BTC (about $ 120K) to the main address (375 transactions, although block observers show 374). There were two more additional addresses, while nothing was sent to the XRP account.

The addresses exchanged coins among themselves to create the appearance of people's involvement in the distribution.

The largest victim is a wallet that has worked closely with Japanese exchanges in the past. Bitcoins worth $ 40 thousand were sent from him. The rest of the translations came mainly from international platforms.

Funds are actively moving.