Jan. 4, 2024, 6:29 a.m. | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

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American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X (formerly Twitter) account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam.
As of writing, the account has been restored on the social media platform.
It's currently not clear how the account was breached. But the hacked Mandiant account was initially renamed to "@

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