Litecoin Recovers Social Media Account After Brief Hack Promoting Scam Token

On January 11, Litecoin’s official social media account fell victim to a brief hacking incident, during which a scammer attempted to promote a fake Litecoin token on the Solana network.

The fraudulent post claimed, “LTC is now in Solana,” and included a contract address alongside a suspicious link to a scam platform called pump.fun.

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The post, riddled with grammatical errors, was quickly deleted once the Litecoin team regained access to the account. According to their update, the breach occurred through a compromised delegated account, which has since been deactivated to prevent further incidents.

Litecoin’s X account was briefly compromised today and posts that were not authorized were published. These were live only for a matter of seconds before being deleted. We’re still investigating the issue, but immediately found a delegated account that was compromised and removed…

— Litecoin (@litecoin) January 11, 2025

The team assured users that control of the account has been fully restored.

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