If you can’t defend against crypto bros …
The British Army has apologised after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised by entities that used them to promote NFT., the @BritishArmy Twitter feed hosted content promoting non-fungible tokens described as “The Anomalies is a collection of special Possessed 1/1s”.According to Web3-watcher, the British Arm YouTube account was taken over at the same time as the Twitter takedown.
The YouTube takeover replaced the legit account with regalia that faked that used by an investment management firm and filled with more crypto boosterism, namely a video that cut an old chat between Elon Musk and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey into a new and misleading narrative.Apologies for the temporary interruption to our feed. We will conduct a full investigation and learn from this incident. Thanks for following us and normal service will now resume.
The Army takes information security extremely seriously and is resolving the issue. Until their investigation is complete it would be inappropriate to comment further.The breach of the Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts that occurred earlier today has been resolved and an investigation is underway. The Army takes information security extremely seriously and until their investigation is complete it would be inappropriate to comment further.Social media services increasingly use two-factor authentication before allowing password changes, whichmentions as it suggests whoever hijacked the accounts was able to access a Defence email address to gain access to the accounts. Either that or British Army needs to use much stronger passwords.
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