{"id":9786,"date":"2025-01-27T05:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T05:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2025-01-27T05:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T05:16:38","slug":"ross-gerber-says-x-account-hacked-to-promote-tesla-scam-coin-renowned-investor-says-possible-it-was-an-inside-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9786","title":{"rendered":"Ross Gerber Says X Account Hacked To Promote Tesla Scam Coin: Renowned Investor Says, &#8216;Possible It Was An Inside Job&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Veteran investor\u00a0<strong>Ross Gerber<\/strong>\u00a0revealed on Sunday that his X account was hacked by \u201csophisticated\u201d cryptocurrency scammers to promote a coin linked to automotive giant <strong>Tesla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Gerber, CEO of\u00a0<strong>Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management<\/strong>, thanked the X team, especially CEO <strong>Linda Yaccarino<\/strong>, for the quick resolution. Gerber told Benzinga by mail that the account recovery took 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering it was a Tesla crypto scam coin, I was specifically targeted in this attack,\u201d Gerber disclosed. He clarified that he doesn\u2019t promote cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin to his clients.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My account was hacked yesterday by very sophisticated crypto scammers.  Sorry &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/43220379\/ross-gerber-says-x-account-hacked-to-promote-tesla-scam-coin-renowned-investor-says-possib\" alt=\"Ross\" gerber says x account hacked to promote tesla scam coin: renowned investor it was an inside job>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran investor\u00a0Ross Gerber\u00a0revealed on Sunday that his X account was hacked by \u201csophisticated\u201d cryptocurrency scammers to promote a coin linked to automotive giant Tesla. What Happened: Gerber, CEO of\u00a0Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, thanked the X team, especially CEO Linda Yaccarino, for the quick resolution. Gerber told Benzinga by mail that the account recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-9786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}