Cryptocurrency
[loss] $2M+
"Hackers breach social media accounts of Lara and Tiffany Trump"
Primary Source ↗Financial Loss
$1.8M
(1,800,000 USD)
Affected
2K
individuals/accounts
Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
The Twitter accounts belonging to Lara and Tiffany Trump were compromised and used to announce a fake launch of the (unfortunately real) World Liberty Financial project that their family has been promoting. Donald Trump’s son Eric tried to warn people of the scam, but in doing so retweeted the scam tweet containing the malicious token address.The posts were deleted and accounts were locked down very quickly by Twitter, but not before approximately 2,000 people bought around $1.8 million of the fake token.
Total loss estimated at $1,800,000.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Smart contract exploit / hack
- Vendor / Product
- Trump family Twitter accounts compromised
Timeline
- 2024-09-03 Breach occurred
- 2024-09-03 Publicly disclosed