An attacker gained entry to PwC Venezuela's Twitter Account and has been actively posting cryptocurrency phishing hyperlinks for the previous 8 hours on the time of writing. Contemplating that each one tweets posted by the hacker stay lively, it is apparent that PwC officers have not realized the compromise but.
Buyers who click on on the hyperlinks nonetheless run the chance of being scammed by the hacker. If not promptly mitigated, the menace may very well be catastrophic contemplating PwC Veleneula's Twitter presently has over 37,000 followers.
Cointelegraph has reached out to PwC Venezuela to inform them of the hack. PwC Venezuela has not but responded to Cointelegraph's request for remark.
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BlueBenx, a Brazilian crypto lending platform, just lately blocked 22,000 customers from withdrawing funds after an alleged hack drained $32 million (or 160 million Brazilian reals).
Concerning the hack, an unnamed investor instructed Portal do Bitcoin:
"I feel there is a excessive risk it is a rip-off as a result of this complete hacking story looks like a variety of bullshit, one thing they made up."
The assertion displays a common insecurity amongst traders in centralized crypto exchanges.
The official Twitter account of Large 4 accounting agency PwC, Venezuela was compromised and utilized by the hacker to share hyperlinks to rogue XRP token giveaways.
