THELOGICALINDIAN - Hackers acclimated Twitter to advertise the barrage of a new cryptocurrency backed by the administrator However the badge didnt abide
Hackers breached the OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s Twitter annual via the alien app IFTTT again acquaint a cheep allurement his followers to accelerate ETH to participate in an Initial Bread Offering for Pei’s new company. There was no bread on sale, and the betray was eventually foiled.
OnePlus Founder Suffers Twitter Hack
Carl Pei, the co-founder of the electronics aggregation OnePlus, had his Twitter annual afraid by cryptocurrency scammers beforehand today.
The hackers took advantage of Carl Pei’s contempo startup barrage to accord the consequence that Pei was crowdfunding through cryptocurrency. Less than a fortnight ago, Carl Pei appear his new venture, a customer electronics aggregation alleged Nothing. Pei additionally alien the abstraction of Nothing’s aboriginal product, which is a brace of wireless earphones alleged Ear 1. It’s accepted to barrage in June.
In a Wednesday bulletin acquaint via IFTTT, the hackers wrote to Pei’s 337,200 followers advancement them to accelerate ETH in barter for a new badge alleged NothingCoin. The badge was allegedly based on Ethereum and was priced at $0.0002. However, it does not exist.
Pei bound deleted the aboriginal cheep aural a few account and acquaint addition cheep allegorical that his IFTTT had been hacked.
The adventure recalls the unprecedented Twitter breach of Jul. 2020, back scammers acquaint tweets from the brand of Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Uber, and Square advancement bodies to accelerate Bitcoin to a wallet as allotment of a declared giveaway. They siphoned over $100,000 account of the currency. Of course, this accurate case additionally bears similarities to the 2017 ICO era back abounding arguable projects aloft billions of dollars account of ETH and fabricated off with the funds.
This time, at least, no transaction was fabricated to the hacker’s Ethereum address, abrogation them empty-handed.
