The Chief Executive Officer of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, confirmed that his account number X had been hacked earlier this week. During the period in which the account number was controlled, a set of messages related to the monetization of real world assets of the block chain was published and subsequently deleted.
I confirmed the invasion.
Chesky wrote on July 17th in response to the incident and, in a quilt, stated that hackers had brought a new number of encrypted followers to his account. At the same time, he stated that those elements were not the views he had intended to issue.
According to Fortune, Airbnb saw this as a high-profile account invasion and worked with X on account security. The anomaly has now disappeared.
Different from the usual game trick.
Current reports do not show that the post was accompanied by token sales, false pre-sale, airdrop links or wallets to steal pages. The content was more like a complete set of statements than a direct channel fraud compared to the common misappropriation of social accounts.
As a result, the events caused greater confusion. Users may interpret these messages as a change in Chesky's position on the encryption industry, rather than a simple account failure.
The celebrity account is still at risk of dissemination.
High-profile X accounts have been used repeatedly by the attackers, as such accounts bring their own audience and credibility and allow the rapid spread of unknown encrypted narratives.
In the past, hackers used social platform pages with corporate executives, corporate accounts and market figures to promote false tokens, false airdrops or fishing links. Although the incident did not appear to have been a clear guide to fraud, it once again revealed the magnification of the encrypted information environment following the theft of a prominent account.