{"id":23113,"date":"2025-04-16T17:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-compromise-british-officials-x-account-to-promote-scam-token\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:50:35","slug":"hackers-compromise-british-officials-x-account-to-promote-scam-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-compromise-british-officials-x-account-to-promote-scam-token\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Compromise British Official&#8217;s X Account to Promote Scam Token"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malefactors exploited the X account of British MP and Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, to promote a fraudulent token named House of Commons Coin (HOC).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell has had her X account hacked and is promoting a House of Commons cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/05KKYfS8ho\">pic.twitter.com\/05KKYfS8ho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Green (@DanGreenJourno) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanGreenJourno\/status\/1912067889072402848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On April 15, her page featured links to HOC, described as a &#8220;community-driven digital currency.&#8221; The posts were soon removed, and Powell&#8217;s team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr5drp0n8zjo\">confirmed<\/a> the account had been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, measures to restore access were &#8220;promptly taken,&#8221; and the contentious posts were deleted.<\/p>\n<p>HOC did not garner significant interest. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/dszeqehb71uqbbr3ubrxvckynlblih4qzxhnwcuwhjem\">DEX Screener<\/a>, the token&#8217;s peak market capitalization reached $24,000. Trading volume hit $71,000 across 736 transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February 12, hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/wlfi-co-founders-x-account-hacked-to-promote-scam\">compromised<\/a> the X account of Zak Witkoff, co-founder of the crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) associated with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malefactors exploited the X account of British MP and Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, to promote a fraudulent token named House of Commons Coin (HOC). Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell has had her X account hacked and is promoting a House of Commons cryptocurrency pic.twitter.com\/05KKYfS8ho \u2014 Daniel Green (@DanGreenJourno) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23112,"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":[44,40,810],"class_list":["post-23113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-twitter","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23113","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=23113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}