Gillian Keegan, a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Schooling, was lately topic to a Twitter hack.

Her account tweeted cryptocurrency-related messages and altered to the profile of controversial billionaire Elon Musk.

The tweets had been a few bogus occasion supposedly hosted by Musk’s firms (Twitter and Tesla). It was selling a “particular giveaway for all our followers and the crypto group.” Customers had been promised free Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).

The hack occurred at round 7:30pm on Christmas Day, with tweets being posted for greater than 12 hours afterward earlier than being taken down.

This isn’t the primary time such an incident has occurred: in July, hackers took over the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British military to advertise pretend cryptocurrency giveaways.

Even with Musk having publicly acknowledged his current intent to crack down on spam and malicious content material since his firm takeover in October, he has not been profitable to date.

As reported by U.In the present day, Peter Brandt lately described Musk’s campaign towards bots as a farce, with mass layoffs severely limiting the employees’s assets.