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Title: ESPN baseball reporter‘s Twitter account hacked by NFT scammers
Post by: newshunter on March 12, 2022, 01:05:49 AM

ESPN baseball reporter‘s Twitter account hacked by NFT scammers

The hackers hijacked the popular reporter’s account in an attempt to promote giveaways for the Skulltoons NFT project by duping users into clicking a malicious link.

Source: ESPN baseball reporter‘s Twitter account hacked by NFT scammers (https://cointelegraph.com/news/espn-s-baseball-reporter-s-twitter-account-hacked-by-nft-scammers)

Would appreciate your opinion about this

Title: Re: ESPN baseball reporter‘s Twitter account hacked by NFT scammers
Post by: libertasbella on March 14, 2022, 04:48:44 AM

I think it's certainly more interesting than whatever sports event he considered the most important news day of his life. On the one hand, hijacking someone else's Twitter account is kind of shady. On the other, it is moral equivalent of spraying your tag over a realtor's advertisement on a bus stop.