Over the weekend , while many in the United States were pre - gaming today ’s Fourth of July holiday celebrations , in the UK , the British Army wasscrambling to regain see to it its Twitter and YouTube accountsthat had both been hack to promote NFTs and other crypto investiture scan .
According to the BBC , at one point over the weekend , the British Army ’s Twitter account statement ’s name was changed to Bapesclan along with a “ profile photograph featuring an ape - like cartoon figure with make - up mimicking a goofball . ” Another website , Web3 is cash in one’s chips just nifty , reported that the army ’s Twitter account detail were at one point also “ changed to resemble the Possessed NFT project ” and published tweet promoting a new NFT collection that linked out to a fake minting website .
The British Army ’s YouTube account was instead rebranded to resemble Catherine D. Wood ’s very material investing firm , ARK Invest , and published several livestreams feature Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk that had originally been streamed last June as part of an Ark Invest conference . The livestream videos were modified with overlays raise several Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrency scams , which distinctly answers the interrogative about why both of these social media story had been hijacked .
Screenshot:Twitter via Internet Archive Wayback Machine
By Sunday eve , both accounts , which combined have over half a million follower , were to the full restore , but you could still get at archived written matter of the compromised interpretation of theBritish Army ’s YouTubeandTwitter pagesthrough the Internet Archive ’s Wayback Machine service .
The British Army has formally confirm that the political hack pass off , but while it ’s still look into the incident it has n’t specified or even suppose who or what organization might be behind them . An U. S. Army voice enjoin the BBC : “ Whilst we have now resolved the outlet an investigation is ongoing and it would be inappropriate to remark further . ”
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