South Korea-based Yonhap Information Company reported the federal government’s official YouTube channel was hacked on Saturday.
What Occurred: The information company said that at round 3:30 a.m. the YouTube channel was hacked and its title was switched to “SpaceX Make investments.”
Later it broadcasted a video that includes billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaking about cryptocurrency.
Based on a screenshot posted by the information company, the video clip was excerpted from an previous interview that Musk gave to Bloomberg Information.
Within the video, Musk was proven speaking about how his corporations had purchased Bitcoin BTC/USD as a “small share” of their money property and mentioned his automaker accepts Dogecoin DOGE/USD.
The company reported that an official within the authorities’s tradition and tourism ministry manages the YouTube account turned conscious of the state of affairs at 6 a.m., took safety measures, and restored the account at 7:20 a.m.
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The official mentioned the YouTube account’s ID and password had been suspected of being stolen.
Later, Google confirmed that the channel had been hacked. The Google Korea workplace is investigating the reason for the incident.
South Korean each day JoongAng Ilbo’s Lee Jian has reported the YouTube channel has round 262,000 subscribers and actively posts movies on authorities insurance policies and present occasions.
It is the third YouTube account run by South Korea’s authorities to have been compromised within the final two weeks.
The tourism division’s YouTube channel was breached twice, as soon as on Thursday and as soon as on Friday, and was suspended till Sunday, JoongAng Ilbo reported.
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