Over the weekend, whereas many within the United States had been pre-gaming immediately’s Fourth of July vacation celebrations, within the UK, the British Army was scrambling to regain control its Twitter and YouTube accounts that had each been hacked to advertise NFTs and different crypto funding scans.

According to the BBC, at one level over the weekend, the British Army’s Twitter account’s identify was modified to Bapesclan together with a “profile picture featuring an ape-like cartoon figure with make-up mimicking a clown.” Another web site, Web3 is going just great, reported that the military’s Twitter account particulars had been at one level additionally “changed to resemble the Possessed NFT project” and revealed tweets selling a brand new NFT assortment that linked out to a pretend minting web site.

The British Army’s YouTube account was as an alternative rebranded to resemble Catherine D. Wood’s very actual funding agency, ARK Invest, and revealed a number of livestreams that includes Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk that had initially been streamed final June as a part of an Ark Invest convention. The livestream movies had been modified with overlays selling a number of Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrency scams, which clearly solutions the query about why each of those social media accounts had been hijacked.

By Sunday night, each accounts, which mixed have over half one million followers, had been absolutely restored, however you possibly can nonetheless entry archived copies of the compromised variations of the British Army’s YouTube and Twitter pages by means of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine service.

The British Army has formally confirmed that the hacks occurred, however whereas it’s nonetheless investigating the incident it hasn’t specified and even speculated who or what group is perhaps behind them. An military spokesperson informed the BBC: “Whilst we have now resolved the issue an investigation is ongoing and it would be inappropriate to comment further.”