British Army’s YouTube and Twitter Accounts hacked—and Flooded With Crypto Posts

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4-07-2022, 08:53

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The British Army said Sunday afternoon it has launched an investigation into a breach of its Twitter and YouTube accounts hours earlier, which led to the military branch’s accounts being used to post about nonfungible tokens and cryptocurrency.

The British Army’s official Twitter account had retweeted posts promoting NFTs, according to Reuters, while videos about cryptocurrency featuring billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk were uploaded to its YouTube account Sunday, the BBC said.

All NFT and crypto content had been removed from both accounts by Sunday afternoon.A spokesperson told The Guardian the British Army takes “information security extremely seriously and [is] resolving the issue,” and did not offer any further comment until the military wraps up an investigation into the breach.

It’s still unclear who is behind the breach.

Source-Forbes