Nano Labs Founder Kong Jianping Says Control of X Account Has Been Restored
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Nano Labs The founder said that control of his X account has been restored after it was previously compromised in a phishing attack.
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Nano Labs Founder X Account Control Restored
PANews September 28 reported that Nano Labs Founder Jack Kong said that control of the X account has now been successfully restored after it was previously targeted in a phishing attack. The attacker sent a phishing email to his publicly used email address,AI and his assistant mistakenly identified the fake link in the email as the official X verification page, causing the verification code sent by X to the linked email address to be entered on the phishing page, ultimately resulting in the account being compromised. Earlier reports said that Nano Labs the founder’s X account had been attacked and used to post false project information.
Nano Labs Founder Jack Kong said that control of the X account has now been successfully restored.
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The attacker had previously sent a phishing email to his publicly used email address.
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AI The assistant mistakenly identified the fake link as the official X verification page.
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Jack Kong entered the verification code sent by X to the linked email address on the phishing page, resulting in the account being compromised.
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The X account had previously been used to post false project information.
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This is an account security incident update: the account holder said that control of the account has been regained. Previously, the attacker obtained the verification code through a phishing email and a fake verification page, resulting in the account being compromised.
Why it matters to readers
False project information was posted while the account was compromised. Users should exercise caution regarding links and project content posted by the account.
Phishing attacks can impersonate official pages to induce users to submit verification codes; verification codes should not be entered on pages from unknown sources.
Risks and unknowns
The original text does not specify what the false project information posted previously was.
The original text does not specify whether an official clarification or security statement was issued after control of the account was restored.
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