British Army’s social media accounts hacked by crypto scammers
Hackers had access to multiple official social media accounts of the British Army for nearly four hours, when they posted crypto phishing links and scams. The British Army’s official Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts were breached on July 3 for almost four hours, with scammers promoting rip-off non-fungible token (NFT) collections and cryptocurrency scams.Just after 2PM ET on July 3, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) Press Office tweeted it was aware the Army’s social media accounts were compromised and had begun an investigation.Nearly four hours later, close to 5:45PM....
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