Hackers hacked Kevin O'Leary's Twitter account to give away BTC and ETH

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Hackers hacked the Twitter account of venture capitalist and Shark Tank host Kevin O'Leary and organized a free distribution of 5,000 bitcoins and 15,000 ether on his behalf.

On Thursday, December 29, the attackerspublished a message on Kevin O'Leary's official account that he had allegedly made a lot of money from cryptocurrencies over the past few years and decided to give away BTC and ETH. In a series of tweets, the hackers claimed that O'Leary's account was not hacked and that the giveaways were not fraudulent. They stated that anyone, including US residents, can take part in the distribution of cryptocurrencies.

The tweets contained links by clicking onwhich led users to a fake site. Fraudsters may have reused a site that was created for similar scams on behalf of Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk. The Tesla logo is placed at the top of the web pages, the company's name is present in the domain name, and hackers on behalf of O'Leary thank Musk for sending a certain amount of bitcoins. A few hours after publication, these tweets were deleted. It is unknown whether there were any casualties from the hackers' actions.

Fraudsters hiding behind companiespoliticians and famous personalities have become especially active on various social networks. In July 2020, a large number of Twitter accounts belonging to Apple, Google, Uber, former US President Barack Obama and current US President Joe Biden, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, rapper Kanye West and investor Warren Buffett.

Let us remind you that recently the cryptocurrencyThe community criticized O'Leary for defending the former CEO of the bankrupt FTX exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried. O'Leary called him a "brilliant crypto trader" and expressed his willingness to support any of his ventures, despite the loss of $15 million that O'Leary received from FTX.