NEAR PROTOCOL

DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS

"ALERT It seems that @NEARProtocol's X account has been compromised!"

"The official Twitter account of the public chain project NEAR Protocol appears to have been compromised. Currently, its profile picture on Twitter has been changed to a solid black image, and its bio has been updated to display the word "Dark" with garbled characters. Around 4 AM, several strange tweets with garbled characters were posted, including "re claim your sovereig nty," "darkness," "take back your," and "The sun rises in the east." As of now, NEAR has not provided any explanation on its other official social media channels."

Near Protocol came up with a very clever marketing strategy of changing their Twitter cover photo and profile photo to all black, and releasing cryptic messages to their community. Multiple sources came to the belief that the Twitter account had been hacked, althrough there is no basis to support that the account was ever hacked, and the Near Protocol posted a message with similar text.

SlowMist Hacked - SlowMist Zone (May 30)
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@NEARProtocol Twitter (May 31)
@CryptoSammy19 Twitter (May 31)
@CyversAlerts Twitter (May 31)
@advaitjayant Twitter (May 31)
@nearprotocol Twitter (May 31)
@IceBearResearch Twitter (May 31)
@NEARProtocol Twitter (May 31)
@kvikash007 Twitter (May 31)
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