THELOGICALINDIAN - The official Twitter annual of Belgiums Minister of Energy was the contempo victim of a highprofile hacking adventure Tinne Van der Straetens contour was afraid to advance a artificial betrayal of ethereum tokens
Hacked Twitter Accounts
Whoever was abaft the adventure afflicted the minister’s absolute contour to “Ethereum Foundation” to accomplish it attending legit. First letters indicated that a affected betrayal of 50,000 ETH started to advance out over Van der Straeten’s account.
But no tweets were apparent at the time the minister’s agents adequate the account. However, her Twitter profile’s action during the adventure showed that the hacker admired tweets appear by bitcoin broker Cameron Winklevoss and adventure backer Chamath Palihapitiya.
Quoting Van der Straeten’s agent Jonas Dutordoir, The Brussels Times appear that they contacted Twitter immediately. Also, all passwords were afflicted by the chiffonier accordingly.
Dutordoir added:
Her chiffonier recommended all advisers booty the able aegis measures to abstain such kinds of situations. However, the agent antiseptic that no added accounts nor acute abstracts were compromised in the incident.
Recent Hacked Twitter Profiles of High-Profile Politicians
Although there are no capacity on who could be the administrator of the attack, the adventure happened aloof hours afterwards a agnate one involving the Flemish Education Minister.
According to The Brussels Times, Ben Weyts’ Twitter annual was afraid on February 9, area hackers appear aberrant letters such as “I adulation acerbic (not the drug).”
A agnate adventure happened in September 2020 but involving to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His annual was afraid by alien blackmail actors, who additionally asked in a alternation of tweets for bitcoin donations as allotment of the National Relief Found for Covid-19.
The hacker acclimated the pseudonym John Wick, which acceptable refers to the activity cine appearance of the aforementioned name portrayed by Keanu Reeves.
Interestingly, it’s additionally the alias of a accepted cybercrime group, although authorities didn’t administer to trace the masterminds abaft the incident.
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