Donald Trump's cryptocurrency project has been hacked! "His youngest son, Barron Trump, has been targeted!"
Cyber attacks continue to occur in the cryptocurrency space. Yesterday, the X account of Eric Semler, chairman of the Nasdaq-listed giant Semler Scientific, was hacked, while today, the X account of one of Donald Trump's close associates was attacked.
At this time, the X account of Zach Witkoff, co-founder of the DeFi project World Liberty Financial backed by Trump, has been hacked.
Hackers compromised Zach Witkoff's X account and then introduced a fake memecoin called BARRON, related to Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump. The hackers continued to claim that Trump would soon verify the legitimacy of the token.
The fake memecoin called BARRON surged in price rapidly after this spoof post, but also collapsed very quickly.
Although the hack incident has been confirmed by the WLFI X account, this group still urges users to ignore the spoof posts.
“Zach Witkoff's account has been compromised, and a fake meme of Barron has been shared. Please do not engage. We are addressing the issue as soon as possible.”