Migos Instagram account hacked in apparent blackmail bid on Solana co-founder

The Instagram relationship of erstwhile US rap trio Migos was hacked successful an evident effort to blackmail Solana co-founder Raj Gokal.

On May 27, Migos’ Instagram relationship posted astatine slightest 7 images seen by Cointelegraph, which person since been deleted. Two of the images appeared to picture Gokal holding up his passport and driver’s license, intelligibly showing the afloat details of each document.

The account’s hacker tagged Gokal successful 1 of the images that seemingly showed him with the caption “you should’ve paid the 40 btc,” portion different representation depicting Gokal said “it was lone 40 btc.. should’ve paid.”

Another representation posted by the relationship hacker shows what the caption claimed was Gokal’s woman holding up a driver’s license, portion a further 2 images look to beryllium a dump of backstage information, including mobile telephone numbers and email addresses.

The benignant of photos posted, wherever a idiosyncratic holds idiosyncratic identifying documents successful wide presumption of the camera with their look visible, are commonly utilized by crypto exchanges successful Know Your Customer checks.

However, it is chartless wherever the photos seemingly depicting Gokal and his woman originated and however they ended up being utilized successful the evident blackmail attempt.

The Solana Foundation and Gokal were contacted for comment.

Gokal had posted to X connected May 20 that attackers had “been trying to instrumentality control” of his email and societal media accounts, informing his followers to beryllium suspicious of immoderate out-of-the-ordinary posts.

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