Scammers steal nearly $1M after hijacking 8+ prominent crypto twitter accounts

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Scammers steal nearly $1M after hijacking 8+ prominent crypto twitter accounts
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The scammer group has been sharing crypto phishing scams from a number of big accounts, with some of the tweets staying up for days according to ZachXBT.

Over the past few weeks, a group of scammers has hijacked more than eight Twitter accounts belonging to prominent figures in the crypto space to promote phishing scams. The group has stolen almost $1 million worth of crypto so far, according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT.

In a June 9 Twitter thread, ZachXBT outlined that he had uncovered several wallets “linked on chain” that are connected to phishing scams promoted by the recently hacked accounts. “While the majority of these attacks were the result of a SIM Swap it seems other accounts were potentially stolen with a [Twitter admin] panel,” ZachXBT noted.

Over the past few weeks we have seen 8+ account takeovers connected to the same group of scammers as evident by how their addresses are linked on-chain.

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