British army confirms Twitter, YouTube accounts hack
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The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British army were hacked, and London launches an investigation into the matter.
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The British Army's official Twitter account following the hack
The British army's Twitter and YouTube accounts have been breached, the army said Sunday, announcing that an investigation is underway into the incident after the two pages appeared to be hacked.
The army's YouTube channel now has videos on cryptocurrency and images of billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The official Twitter account, on the other hand, retweeted several posts related to NFTs.
NFTs are tokens that are tied to digital photos, "collectible" items, avatars in games or property, and objects in the metaverse, a developing virtual world.
In the midst of the hack, the Twitter account's name changed to "Bapesclan" and the profile picture became an NFT ape depiction of Joaquin Phoenix's "Joker" character. The Twitter account was restored to normal by Sunday evening.
After tweeting about an NFT scam the account appears to be proclaiming other things pic.twitter.com/edfdEqTZos
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"We are aware of a breach of the army's Twitter and YouTube accounts and an investigation is underway. We take information security extremely seriously and are resolving the issue. Until the investigation is complete it would be inappropriate to comment further," an army spokesperson said.
