Several official X accounts suspected of being hacked, Irish national police-affiliated account posts crypto phishing content

Odaily: Multiple official X accounts under the Irish national police (An Garda Síochána) are suspected of being hijacked by hackers and used for cryptocurrency promotion. Affected accounts include the official traffic safety account GardaTraffic, with about 600,000 followers, and the general government affairs account GardaInfo, with nearly 300,000 followers. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening. The hackers removed the accounts' official police badge verification, changed the account location to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and intensively posted multiple tweets promoting crypto assets, including phishing content that lures users to claim XRP allocations. At present, some violating tweets have been marked with warnings by the platform. The Irish police responded that they have noticed the security incident and will issue an official investigation statement later.