X’s official BNB chain account was reportedly hacked by an unnamed party. The team is currently working to access your account to continue deleting AirDrop posts.
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- BNB Chain’s official X account was hacked on October 1st, and the attackers used it to promote the fake BNB Airdrop website.
- Experts suggest that the hack may have stemmed from issues with social engineering or third-party apps, causing criticism of X’s security.
On October 1st, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao warned users that their BNB Chain X account had been compromised. In the past few hours, hackers have posted links to help users participate in a massive airdrop for BNB holders. According to CZ, the security team is currently working to suspend hacked accounts.
“The security team has already notified X and is working to restore access after first suspending your account. We will also take home requests to remove all phishing websites. Always check your domain very carefully, even from the official X handle,” he wrote in his latest post.
BNB (BNB) Chinese accounts have notified users that their English X account has been hacked by an unconfirmed party. So far, hackers have used it to spread the spread to fake websites that disguise links as Binance.
“Currently, @bnbchain’s official English Twitter account is [hacked]. We are working on the fix urgently. Please do not click on the link! I wrote a Chinese account on the translated post.
Based on Crypto.News observations, the compromised BNB ChainX account is spreading information about the Hodler AirDrop event with a link attached to each post. Hackers appear to promote airdrop events by repeatedly posting links to fake websites claiming to be “bnbchain.org.”
Users are expected to pay attention and ignore these links hackers spread online. Some users based on the comments section of CZ have already asked if there is compensation or support for victims who accidentally connected their wallets.
Among the hacks on social media accounts, BNB tokens have subsided 0.95%x in the last 24 hours. This is because we are dangerously close to falling below the $1,000 threshold.
How did BNB chain social media get hacked?
So far, the Binance team has not yet released any official statements about the hack or how it happened. Based on posts from CZ and China’s BNB chain accounts, the security team is still working to restore access to the account. As of 6am, posts promoting airdrops are no longer available as of UTC.
Ilan Rakhmanov, CEO and founder of Chaingpt, got caught up in the conversation with his own take. He said someone on the BNB team may have accidentally given permission to post malicious third parties without their knowledge.
“Someone on the BNB team connected with permission to post a malicious third party without knowing it was a malicious application. I’ll check the apps I connected to and disconnect everything,” Rakhmanov posted.
CEO of Pet Express Srilanka and independent researcher Shanaka Anslem Perera also provided his input and said that he thought “social layer attacks” were a hack, not the chain that was breached, not the X account.
He urged the BNB team to freeze the X handle and force them to log out of all authenticated apps. He then believes they should still post mortem reports so that other major crypto accounts can learn from slip-ups.
Meanwhile, many users are beginning to speculate about whether their X account is really safe. The BNB chain had a golden checkmark, but it still permeated the outside parties. One user criticized X’s security measures for preventing gold check accounts like the BNB chain, making them more susceptible to hacking or breaching.
“If you can’t secure a Golden Account, what is the purpose of subscribing to pay for that huge amount?” X user said.