The Twitter account of the National Cricket Team of South Africa was compromised overnight with more than 1 million followers where hackers reportedly offered a fake bitcoin lottery and in today’s bitcoin news we take a closer look at what happened exactly.
The CSA account was hacked and the hacker/s tweeted multiple times trying to sell a bitcoin lottery scam to the followers. However, the national team quickly noticed and notified the supporters that they are not involved in the scheme in any way.
The tweet claimed that CSA made a partnership with the Luno crypto wallet where users will win 20 BTC if they signed up for it. Of course, the tweet got deleted quickly but in it was a BTC address where the participants ‘’should’ve’’ sent their bitcoins in order to participate.
CSA wrote to its followers:
‘’And… we’re back!
Apologies to all our Twitter followers who were affected by the hack overnight. We are back in control & ready to bring you what promises to be an even more eventful Day 4 of Test cricket.
Thank you to our friends at the @ICC for your assistance this morning.’’
Luno also debunked the news making clear that the wallet provider has never partnered with the national team:
“We distance ourselves from this tweet that is going around.’’
In 2018, many Twitter accounts got hacked where many of them impersonated Elon Musk even one managed to steal as much as $170,000.
Scams happened in the name of Charlie Lee as well where scammers tried to fake Litecoin giveaways. The hackers promised the users to send them LTC once they make a deposit to their mobile wallet.
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