At least two X accounts of former President Donald Trump’s family have been hacked, with attackers posting several links to sham crypto projects.
The official X accounts of Lara and Tiffany Trump were hacked on Sept. 4, and the exploits were flagged in a message to the official Telegram group chat of Trump’s new decentralized finance (DeFi) project, World Liberty Financial.
Source: World Liberty Financial
Users have been warned not to engage with or click on any links posted by the accounts until the issue is fixed.
“Do NOT click on any links or purchase any tokens shared from their profiles. We’re actively working to fix this, but please stay vigilant and avoid scams!” World Liberty Financial said.
Lara’s husband, Eric Trump, confirmed in a now-deleted X post that his wife’s account had been compromised, and despite the announcements’ seeming legitimate, they were, in fact, posted by scammers.
According to Eric, X locked down both accounts “within minutes.”
Some eagle-eyed X users have claimed the accounts were making announcements before they were taken down to shill a memecoin on Solana, pointing out that both Eric and Donald Trump previously said no memecoin would be launched.
Source: Chase
The crypto trading tool DEX Screener shows that the address in the sham posts was operational for a time.
In the brief time it was up, the token hit a peak trading volume of 1.37 million and had a top price of 0.0053 before dropping off completely.
Source: DEX Screener
“I think it genuinely damages Trump’s electoral prospects, especially if it gets hacked, it’ll be the juiciest DeFi target ever and it’s forked from a protocol that itself was hacked,” wrote Carter in a Sept. 4 X post.
World Liberty Financial details still scarce
The World Liberty Financial platform is set to be a borrowing and lending protocol similar to existing DeFi protocols in the crypto space today.
Trump himself has made several cryptic posts concerning the new project, vaguely positioning it as a service that will help users circumvent traditional banking and establish the United States as the “crypto capital” of the world.
The Liberty project’s official Telegram group has already accrued over 219,000 subscribers.
Since making statements that he would support the industry if elected president again in November, Trump has secured strong support within the crypto community.
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