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 non-fungible token and cryptocurrencies.
The soldiers of the 1st Battalion Duke of Lancaster's are braving the snow.
According to the British Army's official account, they had promoted NFTs, while the videos about Musk were uploaded to their account.
The British Army takes information security very seriously and removed all NFT andcryptocurrencies content from their accounts by Sunday afternoon.
resolving the issue,” and did not offer any further comment until the military wraps up an investigation into the breach.It's not clear who is behind the incident.
Over the past few years, NFTs and cryptocurrencies have exploded in popularity, but experts warn that an influx of scam artists are targeting those who aren't familiar with the new industries The first four months of the year saw the theft of more than a billion dollars of digital currency. Beeple, whose record-breaking $69.3 million NFT helped kick off the craze last year, was the target of a hacking last month that resulted in his followers losing $438,000 in a scam. The accounts of Musk, Bill Gates, Joe Biden and other well-known figures were hacked in 2020.
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