The X Government Minister Lucy Powell has been pirated to promote a cryptocurrency of the “Chamber of the Commons” scam.
A chain of publications now eliminated in the account of the leader of the House of the Commons described the “$ HC” currency as “a digital currency driven by the community that carries the power of people to the block chain.”
The MP office confirmed that his account was pirated on Tuesday morning and said that “the steps were quickly tasted to ensure the account and eliminate celebrity stalls.”
Other public figures with a large number of followers who have been similarly attacked by online computer pirates recently include the BBC journalist Nick Robinson.
Some of the Powell account publications, which is verified by the platform and mentions its position of the cabinet in the biography, included an image of the logo of the House of the Commons.
The deputy of Manchester Central, who has almost 70,000 followers in X, has been the leader of the House of Commons since work won power last summer.
The role is responsible for planning and supervising the government’s legislative program, while defending the rights of Backbench parliamentarians.
Taking accounts X to the advertising scam cryptography currencies is a common method used by cybercriminals.
Fraudsters of Take about accounts that use phishing emails: emails that contain links to websites that access systems or deceive users to share their passwords.
Passwords can also be obtained using filtered information on data violations.
At that time, cybercounts take care of the account and plan their publications around cryptographic currencies that can only take a couple of hours to create and launch.
They expect high profile and reliable accounts to encourage people to buy some of the coins without value without value to win some money before everything is blocked and stopped.
Luke Nolan, a senior research associate in Coinshares, specialization of a digital asset management company, said the Powell account hack was an example of “bomb and overturned.”
This is when people who created cryptocoo inflict their value, make others invest and then sell their majority participation for profits, but leave the currency without taste.
Nolan said he only had 34 transactions in La Moneda, which would have generated a gain of approximately £ 225.
A spokesman for the House of Commons said: “The Parliament of the United Kingdom takes extremely seriously cybernetic security.
“We provide advice to users, including members, so that they realize the risks and how to administer their digital safety; however, we do not comment specific details of our cyber security policies.”
Action fraud said there was an increase in social and email accounts that were pirated in 2024, with 35,343 reports.
Advise configure the 2 -step verification for accounts and use a strong and unique password of three random words.
Earlier this year, Robinson, who presents the BBC Radio 4 program, said his X account was pirated after clicking on an email that believed that the social networks misunderstood him erroneously.
Publishing in his account states that he was launching a cryptocurrency called “$ today.”
