87.3K @beincrypto Senator Cynthia Lummis’ verified X account was briefly hacked and used to promote a fake Solana meme coin called $USA.
The post claimed the token was “officially created by our team” and linked directly to @Pumpfun.
The post disappeared within five minutes, but had already reached around 6K views.
Who is still buying tokens promoted through posts like this? 🤔
87.3K @beincrypto Account takeovers are nothing new in crypto.
Some of the industry’s biggest names have fallen victim to them.
Recently, Vlad Tenev lost control of his X account after attackers socially engineered X’s customer support team.
They used the account to promote a token called Vladhood and extracted around 650 $ETH.
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89.1K @blocknewsdotcom 🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Cynthia Lummis’ official X account appears to have been compromised.
🔸 A suspicious post was published and deleted within 5 minutes.
🔸 The incident is being treated as a potential account hack.
Stay alert and verify posts before interacting. https://t.co/DtPRZP04mW
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1.8M @BitcoinArchive 🚨 U.S. SEN. LUMMIS OFFICIAL X ACCOUNT HACKED
🔸 Senator Cynthia Lummis’ official X account appears to have been compromised.
🔸 The post was deleted within 5 minutes.
Stay alert! 👀 https://t.co/BurDgrwER5
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