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Kevin O’Leary Account Compromise

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Incident Overview

The Twitter account of celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary was hacked on Thursday and used to promote a bitcoin and ethereum giveaway scam, Bitcoin.com reported. The hacker claims that Mr. Wonderful (Kevin O’Leary) is giving away 5,000 BTC and 15,000 ETH, and the tweet also provides a link so anyone can participate. The scam giveaway posts have now been removed by Twitter a few hours after they were posted.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://news.bitcoin.com/kevin-olearys-twitter-account-hacked-to-promote-bitcoin-ethereum-giveaway-scam/ (opens in a new tab)

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