BREAKING: Google hacked to promote Bitcoin scam on Twitter

Nov13

by Sindy Cator on November 13, 2018 at 7:40 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork

In the latest in a string of cryptocurrency-related hackings on Twitter, attackers have breached an official Google account to promote a Bitcoin giveaway scam to its over 800,000 followers. The official G Suite Twitter account just blasted the following message to hundreds of thousands of users: Hard Fork has yet to confirm for how long the tweet remained on G Suite’s feed, but it was no less than 11 minutes (as you can notie on the screenshot. (Update 19:52 UTC, November 13: Ernst Mulders, who provided the screenshot above, told Hard Fork the tweet disappeared a couple of minutes after…