{"id":20942,"date":"2025-02-06T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/users-suffer-losses-from-meme-coin-scam-on-hacked-jupiter-x-account\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:06:12","slug":"users-suffer-losses-from-meme-coin-scam-on-hacked-jupiter-x-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/users-suffer-losses-from-meme-coin-scam-on-hacked-jupiter-x-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Users Suffer Losses from Meme Coin Scam on Hacked Jupiter X Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 5, the official account of the DEX aggregator Jupiter on X was hacked by unknown individuals to promote a series of fraudulent meme tokens. The incident was reported by the Jupiter Mobile page (the tweet has since been deleted). <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-02-06-v-09.13.28-1024x442.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-02-06-v-09.13.28\" class=\"wp-image-251202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-02-06-v-09.13.28-1024x442.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-02-06-v-09.13.28-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-02-06-v-09.13.28-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-02-06-v-09.13.28.png 1487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Content of the original Jupiter Mobile tweet. Source: X.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Users were advised not to click on links in posts from the compromised account.<\/p>\n<p>According to preserved screenshots, the perpetrators advertised a meme coin with the ticker MEOW, likely named after the pseudonym of Jupiter&#8217;s co-founder. They later promoted a fake coin called DCOIN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Jupiter was hacked and is promoting a honeypot.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe from the scams. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K4IFdV4NcK\">pic.twitter.com\/K4IFdV4NcK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lewsiphur (@Lewsiphur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lewsiphur\/status\/1887303270055747964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Several users under the warning tweet reported losing their Solana tokens. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lost 14 sol <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jup_mobile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jup_mobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1solinfeb (@1solinfebuary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1solinfebuary\/status\/1887318006369259523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Beanie, the founder of the venture company GM Capital, the damage exceeded millions of dollars. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Traders lost millions instantly on this Jupiter account hack. Literally in a matter of minutes. It\u2019s amazing how we trust these protocols with billions of dollars in liquidity but they\u2019re not competent enough to protect their social media. Quite the paradox we see too often here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z9WXjRgjZf\">pic.twitter.com\/z9WXjRgjZf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beanie (@beaniemaxi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beaniemaxi\/status\/1887308983821582526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how we trust these protocols with billions of dollars in liquidity, but they\u2019re not competent enough to protect their social media,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the morning of February 6, the Jupiter team regained control of the account. They emphasized that the issue only affected the X social network, and no customer or treasury funds were at risk. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we&#8217;ve regained control of our account.<\/p>\n<p>to be clear: no customer or treasury funds were ever in danger. all programs and funds are in held in secure multisigs. no other comms channels were affected. <\/p>\n<p>and, thankfully, all of our team members are safe. <\/p>\n<p>jupiter is fully\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jupiter (?, ?) (@JupiterExchange) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JupiterExchange\/status\/1887386097119899896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAll programs and funds are held in secure multisigs. No other communication channels were affected. And, thankfully, all of our team members are safe. Jupiter is fully protected,\u201d they wrote. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in late January, an unknown hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nasdaqs-x-account-compromised-to-promote-fake-memecoin\">compromised<\/a> the official X account of the Nasdaq exchange to promote a fraudulent meme token STONKS, mimicking the name of the original Solana-based coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 5, the official account of the DEX aggregator Jupiter on X was hacked by unknown individuals to promote a series of fraudulent meme tokens. The incident was reported by the Jupiter Mobile page (the tweet has since been deleted). Content of the original Jupiter Mobile tweet. Source: X. 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