Hackers compromised the account of the venture company Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) on the social network X with more than 850,000 subscribers to promote the A16Z token created on the SOLANA blockchain.

Attackers published advertisements with malicious links, saying that Andreessen Horowitz officially launched her own token. Hackers called him “an important moment in the development of cryptocurrencies and the SOLANA ecosystem.” The crackers managed to publish tweets about the free distributions of tokens for $ 5 million. Soon, the company restored control of its account and removed the content of scammers. The leadership of Andreessen Horowitz assured that only an account was hacked in the former Twitter.

“Our account in X was briefly compromised. Hackers promoted fraudulent token and other fake content, to which the A16Z has nothing to do. We apologize for the confusion caused by clowns that temporarily seized our account, ”the company said.

After the publication of the hacker posts, the A16Z token grew up in price for a short time, but soon fell by almost 90%. Now the market capitalization of the coin is about $ 214,230. There have been messages from people who stated that they became victims of this scheme of Pampa and Dumpa, demanding from the venture company to return the money.

Andreessen Horowitz is not the first to subject to hacker attacks. In February, the crypto browser Colin U (Colin Wu), known under the pseudonym Wublockchain, said that the account of the founder of the A16z CHRIS DIXON) was compromised and used to promote a fraudulent project.

Even statesmen are not safe from the attacks of hackers. Recently, the attackers hacked the President of Paraguay Santiago Peña, announcing the creation of a state crypto -cutter for $ 5 million.