The Litecoin (LTC) social media account was briefly hacked on January 11 by a fraudster promoting the false Litecoin token on the Solana network.
“LTC is now in Solan,” wrote a hacker in a deleted and grammatically incorrect post, which contained a contract address and a FUN pump link with a token of fraud.
In the update, the Litecoin team announced that they regained control over the account and said that Hack is caused by a handicapped delegated account that has been deleted since then.
In recent months there has been a number of hacks on X, which caused the promotion of false tokens or phishing links designed to steal funds and confidential data.
Source: Litecoin
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Restaking Protocol Eigenlayer Account X was hacked on October 18 to promote the false Airdrop campaign.
The hacker posted several malicious links from the account promoting “Season 2 Stkedrop” – about which a fraudster from real own tokens claimed – before their own team regained control of the account.
On November 3, rapper Khalif’s account was threatened. The hacker used the account to advertise a false Memecoin celebrity called Wiz, claiming that Memecoin was associated with a music artist.
Account X Cardano Foundation suffered a similar violation on December 8, when the hacker took control of the social media side to promote a false token called “Adasol”.
During the incident, the actor threatened falsely claimed that the Cardano Foundation would stop supporting his native assets, ADA (ADA), because of a lawsuit from the Securities and the United States Committee (SEC).
The false token generated about USD 500,000 USD of trading before disclosure of fraud, and the “Adasol” price dropped by more than 99%.
Yat Siu, co -founder of the Web3 Company Animoca Brands, was a victim of hacking account x 26 December.
Like other cases, the fraudster used an account to advertise a false memecoin token in the Solana network called “Brands Animoca”, which has no connection with the well-known Web3 company.
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