British Army’s YouTube and Twitter Accounts Briefly Spammed With Crypto Video and Elon Musk Photos

British Army’s YouTube and Twitter Accounts Briefly Spammed With Crypto Video and Elon Musk Photos
A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
Lily Zhou
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An investigation is underway after the British Army’s social media accounts were briefly hijacked on Sunday.

The army’s YouTube channel was renamed “Ark Invest”—a global investment management firm—and featured a number a videos on cyptocurrency with images of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.