The Chief Executive Officer of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, responded to the theft of the X account earlier this week and, in a truism, said that the incident had left him with a lot of encryption interests. Of even greater concern was the fact that the stolen account had once published a series of messages discussing the monetization of real assets.
The stolen account sent out RWA.
It was reported that the relevant information had subsequently been deleted. Chesky has been following the monetization track and portraying traditional assets based on block chains as potentially leading to important financial innovation.
This type of statement has triggered the discussion because Chesky used to talk about the encryption industry very rarely. Public information indicates that in May 2022 he mentioned that Airbnb might have received payment in encrypted currency, but that there have been few statements since then.
Airbnb contact the X security team.
Fortune reported that Airbnb saw the matter as a “high-profile account invasion”. The company then contacted the security team in X to assist in protecting the account number and to deal with follow-up issues.
From the information currently disclosed, the event did not extend to the Airbnb business system or to the asset level of the user, where it was known that the main focus was the control of social media accounts and the public release of unusual content.
The hacker's motive raises questions.
Following the incident, some users questioned “why hackers take the opportunity to promote RWA”. The view was expressed that, if the aim was common fraud, it was not common for a long list of industry-specific discussions to be published as tokens.
There are also sound speculations that these apparently AI-style postings may not be typical hacking, but are the result of internal errors or other errors. However, the available public information has not confirmed this claim.