- Trump’s family’s social media accounts were hacked to promote fake crypto tokens.
- Polymarket data showed that Trump remained a front-runner despite recent disruptions.
Just a day after Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial platform was targeted by scammers, hackers have reportedly breached the social media accounts of Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, and daughter Tiffany Trump.
On the evening of the 3rd of September, these compromised accounts were used to promote a token falsely linked to World Liberty Financial, an upcoming crypto project that has recently been highlighted by Trump family members.
Trump’s family under scammers’ radar?
Chase, a journalist, took to X (formerly Twitter) to alert users, and stated,
“Do not interact with this Solana Meme Coin. Eric Trump and Don Trump previously said no memecoin would be launched.”
This reiterates that any such claims, particularly those coming from these hacked accounts, should be ignored and not interacted with.
For further credibility, the journalist also included a screenshot of the now-deleted posts made from these compromised accounts.
Source: Chase/X
As expected, users were urged to avoid any links shared by these compromised accounts until the issue was fully resolved.
Additionally, the hacking incident was flagged in a notification sent to the official Telegram group of Trump’s new decentralized finance (DeFi) project, World Liberty Financial.
Source: World Liberty Financial
Eric Trump weighs in
Further affirming the situation, Eric Trump, in a post that has since been deleted, confirmed that his wife Lara’s social media account was hacked.
He highlighted that although the announcements made from her account appeared legitimate, they were actually created by scammers.
However, after X took immediate action for this scam, Eric Trump also took to X and informed that,
“@twitter was amazing and has locked down @LaraLeaTrump and @TiffanyATrump accounts within minutes.”
Mixed community reaction
Amidst this, many seemed to have been against Trump and believed that ‘EVERYTHING the Trump’s are involved in is a scam’,
Source: Bill Madden/X
However, there were many who were in support of Trump as Nic Carter would put it,
“Is there something that we, as crypto twitter, can collectively do to stop the launch of world liberty coin? 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).”
Carter further added,
“I’m against it because I obviously support Trump, but this decision, bad as it is, wont change that.”
Despite these setbacks, Polymarket data indicates that Trump remains the frontrunner, suggesting that these minor disruptions aren’t likely to deter his supporters.
Source: Polymarket
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