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By Shriya Roy

Earlier this week, social networking platform Twitter suffered a major security breach when hackers took control of the accounts of some major public figures such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Kanye West, and companies like Uber and Apple. The hackers sent a series of tweets through these accounts urging followers to make donations in cryptocurrency in exchange for double the money back. Twitter attributed the hack to a “serious breach in the company’s internal system” and shut down parts of its service. “If a message sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. If Musk, Gates, Apple, Biden or any well-known person or company wanted to hand out huge amounts of money on a whim, they wouldn’t demand that you hand them money first. It’s a trick and an obvious sign that the person’s account has been hacked,” says Paul Ducklin, principal research scientist at security software and hardware firm Sophos.

Last month, the government of India, too, had issued a warning of a…

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