It turns out it wasn’t just high-profile personalities like Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Jeff Bezos whose Twitter accounts were accessed in an apparent bitcoin scam. Twitter said late Thursday that they were among roughly 130 accounts that hackers had targeted this week.The company says hackers had accessed its internal systems to gain control and send tweets from what it described as a “small subset” of the targeted accounts.

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