
The Pasig Metropolis Public Info Workplace (PIO)’s Twitter account was hacked apparently by cryptocurrency merchants, who used the social media account to market free “non-fungible tokens” or NFT.
The PIO confirmed the hacking incident yesterday, saying it managed to retrieve the account by way of Twitter’s assist.
“Town’s official Twitter account with the deal with @PasigInfo was hacked at round 10 p.m. on Saturday, which led to the tagging of hundreds of Twitter accounts right into a tweet containing a promo from @AzukiOfficial,” the PIO mentioned in a press release.
The hacker tagged Twitter customers within the tweets it despatched utilizing the PIO’s account, by which they have been selling an NFT drop.
The hacker additionally modified the PIO Twitter account’s identify to Pasig.eth, which is brief for Ether, the cryptocurrency of the Ethereum community, which is the second hottest digital token after bitcoin.
The bio was additionally turned into “co-founder of @AzukiOfficial.” –