{"id":66701,"date":"2022-09-05T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66701"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:43:02","slug":"hackers-stage-a-fake-xrp-giveaway-on-behalf-of-pwc-venezuela-subsidiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-stage-a-fake-xrp-giveaway-on-behalf-of-pwc-venezuela-subsidiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers stage a fake XRP giveaway on behalf of PwC Venezuela subsidiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers breached PwC Venezuela&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PwC_Venezuela\"> Twitter-\u0430\u043a\u043a\u0430\u0443\u043d\u0442<\/a> to promote a fake XRP giveaway on behalf of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.<\/p>\n<p>Eight hours after the incident, administrators managed to regain access to the page and remove the phishing links.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/167701\/pwc-venezuela-twitter-account-hacked-to-promote-scam-xrp-giveaway?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss\"> The Block<\/a>, during that period the hackers posted 14 such posts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-718.png\" alt=\"Hackers staged a fake XRP giveaway on behalf of PwC Venezuela subsidiary\" class=\"wp-image-183732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-718.png 636w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-718-300x254.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption>\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435:<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/pwc-venezuela-twitter-account-hacked-attacker-shills-fake-xrp-giveaway\"> Cointelegraph<\/a>.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As of writing, the latest post is dated September 2. The account has 37,100 followers.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2020, Ripple and Garlinghouse filed a lawsuit against YouTube. They accused the platform of reputational damage due to its inaction toward scammers promoting fake XRP token giveaways on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Garlinghouse refuted CryptoLeaks&#8217; claims of an alleged collaboration between him and the law firm Roche Freedman to fund a campaign against competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers breached PwC Venezuela&#8217;s Twitter account to promote a fake XRP giveaway on behalf of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,112],"class_list":["post-66701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-ripple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66703,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66701\/revisions\/66703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}