Pump.Fun’s X Hacked, Promotes Fake Token
Solana-based Memecoin LaunchPad Pump.Fun’s X account has been hacked and used to facilitate fake cryptocurrencies, including “official” pump therapy tokens. Investigators on the chain suspect that the hacker is associated with other X account compromises.
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On Wednesday, pump.fun’s official X account was compromised, hacker Promote different tokens during events. Before deleting various memes, the account begins publishing to different contract addresses for various memes.
The hackers initially shared the pump’s contact address, the “official pump. Political Token”, pointing out that “democracy has never been such a degen” and they will reward their “OG Degens”.
The crypto community quickly identified Memecoin as a scam and reminded other users of potential account compromises.
Blockchain data company bubble warn Users of the forged monuments explained that the pump was “largely bundled and will dump” because 60% of the token supply was held in two clusters.
Meanwhile, Alon Cohen, founder of Pump.Fun, confirmed the X hack and asked the community not to interact with or share any links until it is restored.
According to the researcher of the chain link, the hacker extract The token minutes after sharing Memecoin is about $600,000. Crypto detectives explained that their strategy includes posting CAs that tied up scams and removing them after intensifying investors.
Apart from fake pump tokens, malicious actors Promotion OG, Extraction Protocol (Exai) and Pump. Dethective noted that before hackers repeatedly and rugged the money, some investors continued to buy tokens, with the last token reaching a market capitalization of $1.5 million.
The malicious actor asked the cryptocurrency community whether it should create a “legal token for pump.fun” and called it “hackeddotfun”. They “promises” to pump Memecoin to a $100 million market capitalization and make sure it won’t be “bundled” and will be launched through the platform before the job is deleted.
pump.fun hack links to Jupiter’s X compromise?
The famous chain detective Zachxbt reveals the pump. FUN compromises have been “directly connected to the chain” with Jupiter Dao and Dogwifcoin starting from February 2025 and November 2024, respectively.
On his Telegram channel, Internet Sleuth suggested that the attack “maybe it’s Pump.fun or the Jupiter team’s fault.” Instead, Zach suspected the threat actor was “X’s social engineering staff are taking advantage of social engineering with fraudulent documents/emails or panels.”
WU blockchain shares GMGN data reveal Yesterday, there was only one pump. FunMemecoin’s market value is over $1 million. The post details several tokens that hit $1 million obstacles, but will soon drop sharply.
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Follow Trump and Melania aldult And the recent Libra token controversy, investors expressed exhaustion of the ongoing Memecoin scam deployed through Solana-based Launchpad.
Some community members called the hacker “the nails on the coffin of meme coin” and were the emotions around him Department of “Memecoin Fiesta” is at its lowest point in the cycle.
At the time of writing, the team at pump.fun has recover Visit the account and say they will continue to monitor the situation because “the attack that led to this compromise is unknown, but the team is unlikely to be at fault.”
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