Watcher Guru official X account compromised by hacker

Crypto News and Update of the media platform, Watcher Guru, confirmed that his account X had been raped by a pirate who spreads unauthorized publications on all his channels.

In a recent X jobThe crypto media platform has warned its almost 3 million social networks The subscribers that a pirate violated the account. The team is still in surveying hacking and is currently in touch with the X -style team.

“Our X account was hacked and the previous post (now deleted) was published by a pirate. We have activated 2FA and we have taken extreme measurements to avoid job.

On March 21, around 2:05 am UTC, the pirate downloaded an unauthorized message on the Watcher Guru account which said that the SWIFT payment company was about to conclude an agreement with Ripple To use XRP (Xrp) for cross -border payments. However, the account said that the position was not carried out by the team, but rather a pirate who managed to take control of the account.

The Guru Watcher explained that as they have a bot that automatically republishes all the information in the X account to the other social media channels of the media platform, the false post was also shared with Watcher Guru Telegram,, Facebook And Discord.

“All unauthorized messages have been deleted and our account has been secured. We are contacting X for more clarification,” said Watcher Guru.

How does the hacker access the account of the observer guru?

The media platform team suspects that the hack is linked to a false X link sent to its telegram account on March 5. The team believes that it was a social engineering technique to access the official account. They claimed that the link was “formatted in a strange way” because it had a “token” request chain which does not normally appear in the X links.

“We didn’t think about it much because it was an official link, but we sent a message to the head of Cyber ​​Security from X @CStanley in case. However, we did not receive an answer,” the team wrote.

Although the team cannot confirm the hack and the strange link, the same thing had come to another media focused on crypto, DB News. Despite the two accounts deployment of two -factor authentication, the pirate has always been able to access his official accounts.

At the time of the press, Watcher Guru said he had not been able to determine the exact source or method behind hacking. However, the team has promised to take action to avoid other hacks and provide subscribers an update when there is more details.

In recent years, many X accounts have been piracy. Most of them have been used to promote Same Launched just a few minutes after sharing the post by the attackers. In February, the Instagram account of the luxury brand Dior was pirate To promote a false Solana (GROUNDDior Memecoin, based), which reached a market capitalization of $ 280,000 before crashed 90% after the abolition of the position.