It seems the Department of Health twitter account was compromised and was sending #Cryptocurrency promotional tweets over the long weekend (Kaway kaway naman dyan mga ETH fanbois 🙂 ).
Hacked? Compromised? PH Govt entity? What’s new? Hehehe 🙂
The crypto related tweet sent on April 22, 2023 (tweet active as of posting this article, 1.3M views and counting, 500+ RTs, 1.1K QTs wow ha!)
eth should honestly pump to $4000 by next month.
the doh will pump it ?
— Department of Health Philippines (@DOHgovph) April 22, 2023
Tweet Link here
DOH gave some vague explanation, but my menardconnect translation = they are lying and this is just some lame excuse 🙂
DOH ADVISORY
Please be informed that the due to a technical glitch in Twitter, which was also experienced by some entities and organizations globally, the Department of Health’s (DOH) official twitter account was renamed to “Vela Exchange” for a short period.
— Department of Health Philippines (@DOHgovph) April 22, 2023
Tweet link here
Why a lame excuse? They have not cleaned up the “compromised” tweet so they are not in control here 😀 . Hello po! Linis muna bago promo-han dyan sa twitter
Here is my tweet about it:
“Technical glitch in Twitter” + “Also experienced by some entities and organizations globally” = Excuses!!! The fact na hindi nyo pa rin nabubura yung tweets nyo about crypto means hindi nyo pa rin na-sesecure twitter account nyo @DOHgovph https://t.co/7b37ckWmT6
— Menard Osena (@Menardconnect) April 24, 2023
Its just sad that a government agency can blatantly LIE (and get away with it) here in twitter (but ever since elnoskum took over this birdsite this seems to be the trend/direction of the site). Hope DICT help their sister department in this #infosec #security related incident and cleanup! Will add more thoughts on this soon…