The British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts were hacked and used to promote cryptocurrency scams, as confirmed by the Army on Sunday.
The British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts were hacked and used to promote cryptocurrency scams, as confirmed by the Army on Sunday.
The military force's Twitter account was reportedly hacked, replaced with the name of NFT group Bapescan and a profile picture of cartoon monkey face paint. Its description was changed to "#1 metavesto clan on the ETH chain with multi-billion dollar experience. Powered by @chaintchlabs."
The hackers also made the account appear linked with The Possessed NFT collection, developed by PSSSSD Labs. Several links to NFT giveaways were retweeted.
Since the account has been restored, with all such retweets deleted. The Army account tweeted an apology, saying they will "learn from this incident".
Meanwhile, the Army YouTube account name was replaced with a global investment firm Ark Invest. However, there is no indication that the company was behind the breach.
On the YouTube account, The Verge reports, video interviews about crypto were promoted, along with clips of old live streams by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. These conversations took place last June at a conference held by Ark Invest. Thousands of viewers reportedly watched the live streams aired by the hackers.
According to blogger Molly White, the videos included an overlay that directed users to Bitcoin and Ethereum scams.
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