{"id":1180971,"date":"2023-09-12T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180971"},"modified":"2023-09-12T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:40:00","slug":"ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-says-a-sim-swap-was-behind-his-twitter-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180971","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says a SIM Swap Was Behind His Twitter Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/4aaa7636e55a0b96b2c5b2d06e2fba00.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vitalik Buterin, a computer programmer who co-founded the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum, is clearing the air after his account on Twitter (now known as X) was hacked this weekend. <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/vitalik-buterin-twitter-hack-ethereum-scam-1850824774?rev=1694521366350\">The hack involved a post touting a commemorative NFT<\/a> that was actually a cryptocurrency wallet drainer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ethereum-vitalik-buterin-sim-swap-behind-twitter-hack-1850828757\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ethereum-vitalik-buterin-sim-swap-behind-twitter-hack-1850828757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says a SIM Swap Was Behind His Twitter Hack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitalik Buterin, a computer programmer who co-founded the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum, is clearing the air after his account on Twitter (now known as X) was hacked this weekend. The hack involved a post touting a commemorative NFT that was actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180971\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1180971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}