(Twitter) account hacked to promote crypto scheme — ICANN’s X
I hope no one purchased $DNS.
You can be excused for doing a double take yesterday if you follow The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on X.
The firm’s account was briefly compromised last night to promote a crypto scam.
ICANN has confirmed that it was the victim of a phishing attack. It states it uses multi-factor authentication on all social accounts and has confirmed that no other accounts have been compromised.
As captured by John Berryhill, the perpetrators posted information suggesting that ICANN was behind a fresh crypto project. One post read:
@icann is redefining digital ownership with $DNS – The first memecoin to merge domain governance and Web3 culture on @solana.
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— John Berryhill (@berryhillj.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The post promised an X Spaces event to discuss it.
The post linked to a .org domain that was subsequently deleted. The domain has been re-registered but does not resolve.
It appears that ICANN was quickly able to recover the account.
ICANN has not yet posted anything on X explaining what happened and did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reglike. ICANN has confirmed it was the victim of a phishing attack and will provide more details later.
