Animoca Brands Targeted by Hackers in X Account Breach

Hackers compromised the X account of Animoca Brands’ chairman, Yat Siu, to promote a fake token.

‼️🚨 Unfortunately @ysiu social media account has been compromised. There is no official token or NFT launch from Animoca Brands. The token launch on Solana as claimed in a post was made by the hacker. Please DO NOT engage with the account and stay vigilant.

We will provide an…

— Animoca Brands (@animocabrands) December 26, 2024

The incident adds to a series of attacks targeting profiles such as streaming platform Kick, AI assistant Cursor, World (formerly Worldcoin) co-founder Alex Blania, meme coin Brett, and SocialFi app The Arena.

The attackers sent phishing emails masquerading as X support, urging users to click a malicious link to reset their access. The compromised accounts were used to promote fraudulent tokens.

On-chain detective ZachXBT initially reported the breach of Siu’s profile. According to him, the fake token promoted by the hackers originated from the same address as in several previous incidents.

At the time of writing, the posts made by the hackers from Siu’s account have been removed.

In November, hackers used the compromised X account of rapper Wiz Khalifa, with 35.7 million followers, to promote another fraudulent token.