No one is immune to piracy, not even the British minister responsible for relations with the House of Commons. “Lucy Powell’s personal account was pirated this morning,” a spokesman told AFP, confirming BBC information.
Followed by almost 70,000 people, the account was used to publish a series of messages that promote a cryptocurrency supposedly linked to the lower room of the British Parliament. “Measures have quickly been taken to ensure the account and eliminate misleading messages,” he added.
$ 260 profits for crypto
According to screenshots, the messages now eliminated praised the merits of a cryptocurrency called “$ HCC”. According to Luke Nolan, analyst of the Coinshares digital asset management company, there were only 34 transactions in this cryptocurrency, which would have generated a gain of around 260 dollars.
But “it seems that …