Hacked Lara and Tiffany Trump social media profiles advocate a fraud to profit from a Trump-backed bitcoin project.
On Tuesday evening, hackers posted links to bogus World Liberty Financial websites on the X accounts of the former president's daughter and daughter-in-law.
“Lara’s and Tiffany Trump’s X accounts have been hacked,” the project’s official Telegram channel said on Wednesday.
After advertising for a bogus cryptocurrency giveaway were published in the project's Telegram channel last week, the channel cautioned about “scams, fake tokens and airdrop offers”.
The Independent reports that over 70,000 joined the competing channel, which promised up to $15,000 in cryptocurrencies for everyone who “connects” their wallet. Telegram has not responded to demands for information on how many of its 70,000 members were scammed. Ads on the official channel have been deleted.
Trump has pushed World Liberty Financial on his X and Truth Social pages, but the company has supplied little specifics.
On August 22, the former US president tweeted on his 7.5 million followers that large banks and financial elites had squeezed the ordinary American for too long. “We must stand together.”
The GOP presidential nominee has pledged to construct a national bitcoin stockpile and form a “crypto presidential advisory council” if elected in November.
