The British Army

Account Compromise

Estimated loss

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VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE

Root cause is private-key / signer compromise — the on-chain contract behaved exactly as written. No pre-deployment source audit or bytecode review reaches the key-custody perimeter; this is operational-security territory (HSM/MPC hygiene, key rotation, hot-wallet isolation). Bytecode would show nothing wrong.

▰ METHOD

PRIVATE KEY

PRIVATE-KEY

Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

According to Forbes, the official Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were hacked and posted about cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The Twitter account retweeted posts promoting NFTs, and the YouTube account uploaded a video about Elon Musk and cryptocurrencies. Currently, all NFTs and encrypted content have been removed from both accounts. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: -.

Primary source

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/07/03/british-armys-youtube-and-twitter-accounts-hacked-and-flooded-with-crypto-posts/?sh=6fac1b63 ↗

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Technical record