THE British Army has confirmed some of its social media channels were compromised over the weekend by scammers who used images of Elon Musk in a fake Bitcoin promotion.

Videos appearing to show the Tesla supremo promoting a fictitious Ark Invest Bitcoin and Ethereum event were splattered across the Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts.

Officials said the security failure was being investigated.

No individual or group has owned up to being behind the hack, although the Army's Twitter account's name was briefly changed to 'Bapesclan' and the profile image was replaced by an ape NFT.

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