Investigation under way after interview with Elon Musk uploaded to video channel and picture of cartoon monkey seen on Twitter
The British army's Twitter account has been hacked.has confirmed a “breach” of its Twitter and YouTube accounts and said it is investigating.account appeared to have been hacked and had the name “BAPESCAN” instead of British Army and a profile picture of what looked like a cartoon monkey in face paint.
Its description had been changed from: “Follow us for news and information on deployments, training exercises, ceremonial duties & regimental events. Recruiting” to “#1 metavesto clan on the ETH chain with multi-billion dollar experience. Powered by @chaintchlabs”. Even when the British army account went back to its proper name and description there were still retweets of posts regarding NFTs – non-fungible tokens or digital artworks – that appeared to have been the handiwork of the hackers. These retweets were still on the army’s Twitter at 8.30pm on Sunday evening.channel was reported to have been replaced with an account named Ark Invest and its logo. It appeared to be promoting a purported interview with Tesla founder Elon Musk about cryptocurrency.
A tweet later posted on the official account said: “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.”
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