Crypto scammers orchestrate massive hack on X but barely made $8K

The scammers breached countless X accounts to shill the memecoin, but they didn’t even make enough to buy a Toyota Corolla.

An unknown group of crypto scammers has seemingly missed their payday after hacking their way into several high-profile social media accounts on Sept. 18 — only to end up with a few thousand bucks.

On Sept. 18, blockchain sleuth “ZachXBT” alerted the crypto community that several “large accounts on X” were compromised, all posting a Solana memecoin called HACKED.

Some of the infiltrated accounts included Lenovo India, Yahoo News UK, MoneyControl, Oliver Stone, People, and Krystal DeFi. 

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The scammers breached countless X accounts to shill the memecoin, but they didn’t even make enough to buy a Toyota Corolla.
An unknown group of crypto scammers has seemingly missed their payday after hacking their way into several high-profile social media accounts on Sept. 18 — only to end up with a few thousand bucks.On Sept. 18, blockchain sleuth “ZachXBT” alerted the crypto community that several “large accounts on X” were compromised, all posting a Solana memecoin called HACKED.Some of the infiltrated accounts included Lenovo India, Yahoo News UK, MoneyControl, Oliver Stone, People, and Krystal DeFi. Read more