Group of unidentified hackers hijacked the official Twitter account of American retail giant Target in order to push malicious bitcoin giveaway links to its almost two million followers, according to the report of thenextweb online news magazine,
The tweet, which has since fortunately been deleted, encouraged users to send a small sum of cryptocurrency for a chance to enter a massive $30 million bitcoin giveaway (5,000 BTC). After receiving funds the scammers merely leave naive users with empty pockets.
It is worth noting that it is unclear how much scammers managed to steal during the attack. However, the bitcoin address associated with the malicious giveaway links has received only a few small transactions.
Earlier it was reported that the crypto community has noticed that the popular microblogging service Twitter is massively deleting various cryptocurrency accounts related to different suspicious offers.
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