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"Birmingham's self-made crypto-millionaire giving back"

2022-02-09 [vendor] BBC article about
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Incident Details

The BBC featured an article on their homepage about Hanad Hassan, “a 20-year-old who made millions trading cryptocurrency [who] is set to open a food bank to give back to his community.” They mentioned that “he and his friend … set up a special cryptocurrency together, donating all the profits to charity.” What the BBC failed to note was that the project, Orfano, was apparently a scam — after the project launched and received investments, the duo shut it down and took the money. The BBC took their article down without explanation shortly after publishing, though it is still accessible via the Internet Archive. The BBC had also originally announced that there would be a 30-minute feature on the man on their BBC One channel running later that day, but replaced it with a different segment.

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Timeline

  1. 2022-02-09 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-02-09 Publicly disclosed