Hackers took over the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army on Sunday July 3. The army’s Twitter profile was altered to show images of fake NFTs to promote crypto giveaway schemes.
In addition, the military’s YouTube account, also circulated livestreams with clasps of Elon Musk and guided clients to crypto scam sites.
The hacked British Army’s Twitter profile and flag pictures were changed to look like a nonfungible symbolic assortment called “The Possessed.”
As at now, the identity behind the hacking isn’t yet known. The Twitter account’s name was changed to “pssssd,” aside from its profile and standard pictures being changed to a nonfungible symbolic assortment called “The Possessed.”
The Possessed’s true Twitter account cautioned users of “another confirmed SCAM account” mimicking the assortment of NFTs — tokens representing ownership of pieces of online contents.
Earlier Sunday, the account was renamed “Bapesclan” — the name of another NFT collection — while its banner image was changed to a cartoon ape with clown makeup on. The hacker also began retweeting posts promoting NFT giveaway schemes.
The name of the U.K. military’s YouTube account, meanwhile, was changed to “Ark Invest,” the investment firm of Tesla and bitcoin bull Cathie Wood.
The hacker(s) deleted all the account’s videos and replaced with them with livestreams of old clips taken from a conversation with Elon Musk and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on bitcoin that was hosted by Ark in July 2021. Text was added to the livestreams directing users to crypto scam websites.
The two accounts have since been gotten back to their original owner.
“The breach of the Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts that occurred earlier today has been resolved and an investigation is underway,” Britain’s Ministry of Defense tweeted on Monday July 4.
The Army takes information security extremely seriously and until their investigation is complete it would be inappropriate to comment further.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the British Army’s account “was compromised and has since been locked and secured.”
“The account holders have now regained access and the account is back up and running,” the spokesperson said.
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