To this end, more than five verified, high profile accounts including those belonging to the Toledo Rockets, The Body Shop, Universal Republic, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), and even the UNHCR Serbia account were compromised and could be seen posting responses to the scam tweet in the customary faux-enthusiastic manner employed by the ubiquitous Twitter scam botnet.
distinct lack of adverbs and pronouns, indicating that the hackers are not native English speakers. The key difference with this iteration of the scam is that a number of verified Twitter handles were enlisted to respond to the tweet and give it a measure of legitimacy by extension.
The access lasted for approx. half an hour one fake tweet was posted during that time about a bitcoin scam. We have regained control of the account, are in close contact with Twitter & are investigating now
