Hacker Alert! British Army’s YouTube and Twitter Accounts Hijacked

Threat actors hacked the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British army. A malicious third party compromised the accounts last Sunday, when the users opened the British army accounts, they were redirected to cryptocurrency scams. 

The Minister of Defence (MoD) press office reported the incident around 7 PM on Twitter. The tweet said that the office is aware of the breach of the army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts and an inquiry has been set up to look into the issue. 

It is a matter of utmost importance for the army when it comes to information security, says the MoD office, the army is currently trying to resolve the problem. It said to offer no further comments until the investigation is completed and the issue has been solved. 

However, after four hours, an update said that problem had been fixed, here is the official tweet.

Although only YouTube and Twitter were written in the posts, other reports suggest that the Facebook account was also hijacked. The reports disclosed that the threat actors posted various promotional li

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