PwC Venezuela's Twitter Account Hacked, Hacker Try To Fraud, Investor Asked To Be Alert

Venezulea's PWC twitter account was reportedly hacked. (photo: twitter @PwC_venezuela)

JAKARTA - A hacker has gained access to a Venezuelan PwC Twitter account and has been actively posting a phishing cryptocurrency link for more than 8 hours. Given all the tweets posted by hackers remain active, it is proven that PwC officials are not aware of their accounts having been hacked.

Investors who click on links remain at risk of being scammed by hackers. If not immediately mitigated, the threat could be catastrophic, given that Twitter PwC Valenzuela currently has more than 37,000 followers.

Cointelegraph has contacted PwC Venezuela to inform them of the hack. However, PwC Venezuela has not responded to a request for comment from Cointelegraph.

BlueBenx, Brazil's crypto lending platform, recently also blocked 22,000 users from withdrawing funds following an alleged hack that spent $32 million.

Regarding the hack, an unnamed investor told the Bitcoin do portal of the possible dangers.

"I think there's a good chance that it's a scam because the whole story of this hacker attack looks like nonsense, something they created," said the investor who asked for his identity to be anonymous.

The statement reflects the lack of general trust among investors in centralized crypto exchanges.

In the hacking case, the official Twitter account of the Big Four PwC accounting firm, Venezuela, has been compromised and has been used by hackers to share links to fake XRP token prizes.