UK Army restores its Twitter & YouTube handles after hackers retweet posts on crypto, NFT

UK Army on Monday successfully restored its Twitter and YouTube accounts after y were briefly hacked. British military informed that y have "resolved issue" after confirming that social media handles were under security "breach" on Sunday.  An investigation has been launched into "serious threat" posed to military intelligence social media sites amid ongoing war in eastern Europe.

"Apologies for temporary interruption to our feed. We will conduct a full investigation and learn from this incident," British Defence Ministry wrote on its Twitter handle.

After brief cyber attack, UK military's Twitter account was renamed 'BAPESCAN' with profile picture changed to a pink hoodie-donned cartoon-figured monkey wearing black ribbed goggles. description too was changed to "#1 metavesto clan on ETH chain with multi-billion dollar experience. Powered by @chaintchlabs. (sic)"

re were recurrent posts and retweets about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency. In one instance a video posted on British Army's YouTube channel used snips of tech giant Elon Musk. YouTube channel was renamed  'Ark Invest', which is a global investment firm.

UK Army restores its social media accounts

A British Army spokesperson, as quoted by  BBC, informed that social media handles returned to normal functioning following brief digital ambush. “We are aware of a breach of army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts and an investigation is underway. We take information security extremely seriously and are resolving issue. Until investigation is complete it would be inappropriate to comment furr," spokesperson said. He ded, "We have now resolved issues an investigation is ongoing." British intelligence department is currently working to identify hackers behind security breach.

UK Army faces flak for failing to take precautions

UK's Conservative Party MP Tobias Ellwood slammed British Army for risking to take equate measures to prevent security breaches of its social media amid serious threats of Russian cyber attacks. Ellwood, who is chair of Commons defence select committee said that security infringement "looked serious," BBC reported. He hoped that result of investigation and actions taken to ascertain source of unprecedented hacking "will be shared appropriately."

British army recruitment missions were also temporarily suspended after intelligence officials became aware of overhaul. "Following compromise of a small section of recruit data, army's online recruitment services were temporarily suspended pending an investigation," spokesperson ded. cryptocurrency tweets and retweets were up on Twitter until 8:30 pm (local time), y have been removed now.

(Image: @BritishArmy/Unsplash/Representative)