A group of unknown hackers has just achieved a major win today after attacking Target’s Twitter account to promote a Bitcoin giveaway scam.

The now-deleted tweet is now on display after Ernst Mulders, a software developer at eVect, discovered the major retailer’s thread.

https://twitter.com/ernstmul/status/1062300164046626817

The hack apparently struck multiple accounts, including Toledo Athletics, The Body Shop, AHDB, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Serbia.

Many of these accounts were used as sock puppets to reply to Target’s announcement of its “grand giveaway” of $30 million in BTC, making the scam l…

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