By Nafisat Abdulrahman
The X (formerly Twitter) accounts belonging to two members of former US President Donald Trump’s family were hacked on Wednesday and used to promote a Solana meme coin.
The hacks came as the former president prepared to release his crypto policy platform and his campaign wrestled with the fallout of a foreign cyber-attack, CBS reported.
Shortly after 8:15 p.m., the X account belonging to Trump’s daughter-in-law, Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, appeared to announce that the digital currency project, dubbed World Liberty Financial, had been launched.
The account provided several links to Trump’s 1.7 million followers to a coin and websites claiming to be “the only official channels of World Liberty Financial.” Domiciled in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Njalla Okta was created by a cofounder of The Pirate Bay, a dark-web marketplace.
