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Hackers takeover BNB Chain X account, promote phishing links, meme coins, fake airdrops

The X account belonging to the official BNB Chain has been hacked and used to market a meme coin linked to Binance founder, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), and a bogus airdrop ￰0￱ Chinese account of Binance verified that the handle of @BNBCHAIN was hacked, and users should not like new ￰1￱ account issued a warning that the official English-language BNB Chain account has been ￰2￱ promoted a memecoin featuring CZ just two weeks after the creator commented that meme coins carry “utility” of ￰3￱ promote token CA via the compromised BNB Chain account.

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