Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Says His X Account Was Hacked to Promote Asset Tokenization: 'Thanks for All the New Crypto Followers'

Benzinga07-17 18:38

Airbnb Inc. (NASDAQ:ABNB) CEO Brian Chesky said on Thursday his X account was hacked earlier this week, resulting in posts promoting real-world asset tokenization. A new X post from Chesky’s account ...

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(NASDAQ:ABNB) CEO Brian Chesky said on Thursday his X account was hacked earlier this week, resulting in posts promoting real-world asset tokenization.\nA new X post from Chesky’s account read, “To the person who hacked my account earlier this week: thanks for all the new crypto followers. To my new crypto followers: I’m going to be a very disappointing follow.”\nIt all started with an X thread on his account about real-world asset tokenization, which read, ” I’ve been quiely keeping an eye on real-world asset tokenization for a while now.”\nThe post then mentions that much of it is “noise,” but underneath the noise, “something real” is happening.\nBefore this, Chesky never posted about tokenization on X. In fact, there aren’t many posts about cryptocurrency either.\nFortune also reported on the hack. Benzinga contacted Airbnb to verify whether Chesky’s account is secure and whether he posted the latest update.\nIt’s not uncommon for hackers to target high-profile people to promote cryptocurrency projects.\nHackers hijacked the official SpaceXAI and Starlink X accounts and used them to aggressively promote a memecoin called SCATMAN,  then executed a rug pull after attracting investors to the token.\nSimilarly, veteran investor Ross Gerber’s X account was compromised last year to promote a coin linked to automotive giant Tesla.\nPrice Action: Airbnb shares were down 0.26% in pre-market trading after closing 0.39% lower at $147.80 during Thursday’s regular trading session.\nThe stock shows strong short-, medium- and long-term price momentum, according to Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings.\nPhoto courtesy: Thrive Studios ID / Shutterstock.com\nTo add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.","kind":"news","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"isLaohu8Offline":false,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.46.0","shortVersion":"4.46.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2652407944","isCrawlerRequest":true}