{"id":19325,"date":"2024-12-09T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-breach-cardanos-x-account-to-promote-scam-token\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T10:51:16","slug":"hackers-breach-cardanos-x-account-to-promote-scam-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-breach-cardanos-x-account-to-promote-scam-token\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Breach Cardano&#8217;s X Account to Promote Scam Token"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8, unknown individuals hacked the Cardano Foundation&#8217;s account on the social network X, posting a series of fraudulent statements in the organization&#8217;s name. The network&#8217;s founder, Charles Hoskinson, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IOHK_Charles\/status\/1865794039401840916\">confirmed<\/a> the breach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Cardano Foundation X account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardano_CF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cardano_CF<\/a> has been compromised. Please ignore any posts from the account at this time while we address this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cardano Community (@Cardano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardano\/status\/1865778999365947698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators used the account to advertise the token ADAsol, allegedly issued by Cardano developers on the Solana blockchain. Users <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/5Eb6ZaUwnoYWW6k58tosE1gg6xo5PUx3nHrrocTbpump\">generated<\/a> about $500,000 in trading volume.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXc9rDX9eUGpalSfJAIghdjYNwrnQe1FscRBZFb82quwy7F6f4kFe7dknDLCIGnjVpfAm7PySamRrbUf5-U_shkF8Rgs7O0xF_ZXIQCmJAyU94w3Z3tWpNVWZVXjSosCtoRK5i69Gw?key=Pupcxi5Haa0Ys6hqyZYU5uLo\" alt=\"Hackers Breach Cardano's X Account to Promote Scam Token\" style=\"width:552px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Snapshot of the post promoting the fake ADAsol token. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/329879\/hacked-cardano-foundation-x-account-posts-fake-token-false-sec-lawsuit-notice\">The Block<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following this, a message was posted from the compromised account about a lawsuit the organization had allegedly received from the <span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXf8MoSJsDfVv6M79pjSAuHc_Hj0QN1JHBMfx0W7osS7CesPuVFIPy4CzCvZ2kvvp8fb5JAayFNA-H7SEYpfax7mP4AnG0-iRbro-RbL0b_ZNvJ2HwJpGVTOZMQbkPbg8WfA3sN9kw?key=Pupcxi5Haa0Ys6hqyZYU5uLo\" alt=\"Hackers Breach Cardano's X Account to Promote Scam Token\" style=\"width:552px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Snapshot of one of the fake posts from the Cardano Foundation. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/189\">ZachXBT<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn light of this unexpected lawsuit, we have made the difficult decision to immediately cease support for the ADA token to comply with regulatory requirements,\u201d the hackers stated on behalf of the Cardano Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The project team reported that only the X account was attacked, with other channels and systems remaining unaffected.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Confirmed, we\u2019re on it. Please create awareness<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 michael.ada\u26a1 (@michaeldotada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldotada\/status\/1865773558171095378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December, attackers targeted Solana developers through a JavaScript library substitution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8, unknown individuals hacked the Cardano Foundation&#8217;s account on the social network X, posting a series of fraudulent statements in the organization&#8217;s name. The network&#8217;s founder, Charles Hoskinson, confirmed the breach. The Cardano Foundation X account @Cardano_CF has been compromised. Please ignore any posts from the account at this time while we address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1401,44],"class_list":["post-19325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cardano-ada","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"32","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}