All Blockfolio user data is safe as well as user trading accounts & funds (handled separately by FTX)."Ī Twitter user asked Moncada whether "an apology to all customers, especially your Black customers" would be made. Some token tracking listings & Blockfolio signal comms were impacted. We've disabled the account to investigate. The company said: "We have revoked access to the compromised Signal submitter and removed the messages."īlockfolio co-founder Edward Moncada tweeted: "A Blockfolio marketing account was compromised this evening. were affected this did not interact with any trading features." It later issued a statement once again apologising and reiterating that "no funds/etc. Newsweek has contacted Blockfolio and its owner FTX for comment.īlockfolio tweeted: "We are incredibly sorry about the offensive messages posted on Blockfolio today." Some Twitter users speculated that the company's servers were down. Google searches for "Is Blockfolio down?" and "Blockfolio not working" spiked around this time, according to Google Trends.
Later the app would not open at all and was stuck on a screen showing its logo. ET, it repeatedly crashed and showed an error message. When Newsweek tried to access the app on an iPhone at about 4:15 a.m. The team is working diligently to correct the matter."īlockfolio appeared to be down after the offensive posts. This obviously was not me nor anyone at Blockfolio and does not impact security of funds in any way. Hamlin wrote: "It looks like a Blockfolio marketing account was hacked and someone posted disgusting and offensive things under my name. Hamlin has retweeted messages of Blockfolio apologizing to users and posted a statement explaining that his account was hacked. The offensive posts were attributed to Jason Hamlin, who provides ecosystem insights at Blockfolio. Screenshots of a separate message shared on Twitter showed the above text, as well as a link reading "nakemanpictur" and the words: "BEST CHILD PORN IS AVAILABLE HERE." Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Appears on Clubhouse App Days after Elon Musk.Parler Says Website Will Relaunch 'Very Soon,' Deletes John Matze's Posts.Snapchat's TikTok Rival Spotlight Explained.
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