Hackers hijacked an official Trump Organization collectibles partner account to promote a Solana meme token that crashed 95% in under a minute. The project team pocketed an estimated $312K profit on the pump-and-dump.
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Hackers took over an official Trump Organization collectibles partner account on August 29 and used it to promote a Solana meme token called Trump Digital Gold (GOLD). The token's market cap collapsed by more than 95% within roughly 60 seconds of the initial post, after the project team behind it sold into the buying frenzy.
The compromised account, @realtrumpcoins1, is recognized as an official partner of The Trump Organization for physical collectibles. While under the hacker's control, it pushed GOLD, a freshly minted token on the Solana blockchain. The endorsement triggered a burst of trading activity that briefly inflated the token's market capitalization before the crash.
The project team liquidated 224.5 million GOLD tokens during the promotional window, according to on-chain data. That sell-off generated an estimated $312,000 in profit, a roughly 17x return on the initial investment.
The hacker later claimed in a post that the entire GOLD issuance had produced over $8.2 million in profits. They alleged the funds would be used to finance a bounty targeting associates of President Donald Trump. Speculation within the crypto community has pointed toward Iranian hackers as the likely perpetrators, based on patterns observed in the attack and the political messaging in the hacker's final post.
Once the @realtrumpcoins1 account was recovered, every post related to GOLD was deleted.
Eric Trump has publicly stated that unauthorized uses of the Trump name for token issuances are fraudulent. The clarification arrives in a landscape where the Trump family has its own legitimate token ventures, creating a confusing environment where distinguishing real Trump-branded crypto projects from scams requires more diligence than most retail traders are willing to invest.
Similar incidents have occurred before. Hacks of accounts tied to Trump family members have previously been used to promote fraudulent tokens, following the same playbook of slapping the Trump name on a token and watching retail money pour in before the inevitable sell-off.
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