Cryptocurrency data provider CoinGecko had its X account and terminal briefly compromised on January 10th.
CoinGecko reported they are investigating the situation and securing their accounts, warning users not to click suspicious links. For a short time, a phishing link about a fake CoinGecko airdrop was posted to their X account before being deleted.
This comes after the SEC’s X was hacked on January 9th, with scammers impersonating SEC Chair Gary Gensler to falsely announce Bitcoin spot ETF approval. X said this was not an infrastructure attack but rather lack of two-factor authentication on the SEC’s account.
The culprit obtained the account’s phone number through a third party for a SIM-swap attack, a common issue in crypto where hackers gain access by taking over the victim’s phone number.
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