Attackers took over accounts belonging to several high-profile individuals last week managed to access the direct message inbox of at least 36 individuals. Attackers used their access to these accounts to tweet a scam asking individuals to send Bitcoin to a link embedded in the message and get double the amount in return. Security experts say organizations need to have measures protecting against and mitigating compromises of corporate social media accounts. Twitter’s investigation so far has shown that the attackers sent the Bitcoin tweets from 45 accounts and managed to download detailed Twitter profile information.”]

