A hacker made off with over $135,000 after hijacking the X accounts of SpaceX and Starlink to promote a meme coin.<\/p>\n
The profiles were used to shill a Robinhood-based token that briefly hit a $2 million market cap before crashing to almost zero.<\/p>\n
Screenshots circulating on social media show both accounts reposting content from the token\u2019s profile, with the posts featuring a Sam Altman (SCATMAN) meme coin and tags claiming they were associated with SpaceX.<\/p>\n
On-chain data shows<\/a> the hacker created 10 trillion tokens and sold the entire stash, converting it into 59 Ether (ETH) worth around $108,000 shortly after the posts went live.<\/p>\n According to Lookonchain, a separate wallet linked to the attacker made another sale of 59.28 million SCATMAN tokens for 14.7 ETH, valued at approximately $27,000, bringing the total profit to roughly $135,000. The on-chain analytics platform also identified the two addresses used by the hacker.<\/p>\n Per GeckoTerminal data, SCATMAN\u2019s market cap surged to over $2 million before being immediately rug-pulled. Meanwhile, both companies have since deleted the fake posts and regained control of their accounts.<\/p>\n Prominent social media account takeovers have become common in the crypto space, many of which have been used to pump and dump low-cap cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n For instance, Scroll co-founder Ye Chen\u2019s X account was hijacked in January 2026, with attackers impersonating platform staff and sending phishing messages about copyright violations that tricked crypto leaders into clicking malicious links.<\/p>\n A couple of months later, Pepe creator Matt Furie\u2019s account was used to promote a scam token. Around the same time, WinRAR\u2019s official account was also compromised to push a fake Solana meme coin to its followers.<\/p>\n The most notable breach came in May when Keith Gill, popularly known as Roaring Kitty, had his dormant account breached. In this case, hackers launched<\/a> Red Kitten Crew (RKC) on Solana and walked away with more than $600,000 in half an hour.<\/p>\n Each case followed a pattern seen in crypto several times, where influencers create hype, developers cash out, and retail traders are left dealing with losses.<\/p>\n The post Scammer Makes $135K After Hijacking SpaceX, Starlink Accounts to Shill Meme Coin<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A hacker made off with over $135,000 after hijacking the X accounts of SpaceX and Starlink to promote a meme coin. The profiles were used to shill a Robinhood-based token that briefly hit a $2 million market cap before crashing to almost zero. SpaceX and Starlink Fall Victim to Compromise Screenshots circulating on social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rug Pulls Remain Common in Crypto Space<\/h2>\n