{"id":24602,"date":"2025-06-10T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-breach-paraguayan-presidents-x-account-post-fake-bitcoin-announcement\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:13:47","slug":"hackers-breach-paraguayan-presidents-x-account-post-fake-bitcoin-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-breach-paraguayan-presidents-x-account-post-fake-bitcoin-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Breach Paraguayan President&#8217;s X Account, Post Fake Bitcoin Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers posted a message on the X account of Paraguayan President Santiago Pe\u00f1a, falsely claiming Bitcoin had been recognized as legal tender. At the time of writing, the post has been removed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-06-10-095726.webp\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-06-10-095726\" class=\"wp-image-260182\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SantiPenap\/status\/1932125390153396541\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The post also claimed that authorities had formed a $5 million reserve in the cryptocurrency for the national treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Colin Wu stated that the information is false. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The social media account of Paraguayan President Santiago Pe\u00f1a appears to have been compromised, with a post claiming that Bitcoin has been declared legal tender in Paraguay and that a $5 million BTC reserve has been established as part of the national treasury. However, on-chain\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/1932132228643037309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The wallet address mentioned in the post holds assets worth $4. No transactions have been made to it following the statement, confirming the message is fake.<\/p>\n<p>The official account of the president&#8217;s office urged followers to &#8220;disregard any recently published content&#8221; without official confirmation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Comunicado oficial. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bk3XI6ohpp\">pic.twitter.com\/Bk3XI6ohpp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Presidencia Paraguay (@PresidenciaPy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresidenciaPy\/status\/1932128676033728834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in April, hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-compromise-british-officials-x-account-to-promote-scam-token\">exploited<\/a> the X account of UK Member of Parliament and Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell to promote a fake token called House of Commons Coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers posted a message on the X account of Paraguayan President Santiago Pe\u00f1a, falsely claiming Bitcoin had been recognized as legal tender. At the time of writing, the post has been removed. Source: X. The post also claimed that authorities had formed a $5 million reserve in the cryptocurrency for the national treasury. Journalist Colin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24601,"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":[44,1482,40],"class_list":["post-24602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-paraguay","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602","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=24602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}