The Twitter account of American music producer and DJ Steve Aoki has been compromised and used to conduct a phishing scam that led to the loss of at least $170,000 worth of crypto assets.
According to a Friday tweet by on-chain sleuth ZachXBT, the attacker utilized their illicit access to Aoki’s account to execute the scam by falsely claiming that the musician had joined the $PSYOP token train and giving a link for users to claim free tokens.
Twitter Users Lose $170K to Scammers
Shortly after scammers posted the airdrop link using Aoki’s account, crypto influencer @eth_ben, retweeted the phishing scam post for “clout,” according to ZachXBT.
As a result, some Twitter users who clicked on the link to claim the free tokens ended up losing about $170,000 in ether (ETH) to the scammers.
Congrats to @eth_ben who decided it was a good idea to quote tweet a phishing scam posted by the compromised @steveaoki account for clout causing his followers to lose around ~$170k
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