Multiple X accounts hacked to promote crypto token scam
Multiple X accounts were hacked and used to promote a Solana-based cryptocurrency token. The attacks were linked to a pump-and-dump scam involving the $HACKED token, and the hacking of accounts belonging to the UK Attorney General and Neymar also came to light.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Multiple X accounts hijacked and used to promote a cryptocurrency scam
- Cause / method
- Promotion of a cryptocurrency token via hacked X accounts
- Location
- Other countries
Timeline
- The hacking of multiple X accounts, the promotion of the $HACKED token scam and the hacking of the UK Attorney General's account came to light.
- It emerged that Neymar's account had been hacked and used to promote a Solana-based memecoin.
- Cryptocurrency scam attempts using prominent X accounts were reported to have been unsuccessful.
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