The X account of Premium Times, a Nigerian online newspaper, was hacked on Wednesday, FIJ has learnt.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, sometime after 5 am, the page shared a Medium link captioned ‘Ripple is breaking barriers! The future of finance is here! $XRP #XRP $RLUSD #RLUSD #HODL #Crypto #Blockchain $Ripple #Ripple’.
Accompanying this post was a featured image with the name ‘Brad Garlinghouse’ written on it.
Since the first post went public, the page has shared no fewer than 10 posts with similar cryptocurrency promotional content.
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The newspaper issued a statement confirming the development.
The statement read, “Dear readers, At about 3:00 GMT, our X account was hacked. We are currently reviewing how the hacker was able to bypass our Two-Factor Authentication to gain access.
“We are also working to gain complete access to our account as quickly as possible.
“You can still read our stories on our website and all our other social media pages.
“We apologise for the inconvenience.”
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