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Nano Labs founder Jack Kong regains control of hacked X account

Nano Labs founder Jack Kong said his X account has been recovered after a phishing attack. Attackers sent a phishing email to his commonly used public address, and an AI assistant misidentified the fake link as an official X verification page, leading him to enter the verification code sent by X to his bound email into the phishing page. The account had earlier posted false project information.

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The notable detail here is the failure mode: an AI assistant misjudged a phishing link, turning a routine verification step into the breach. That shifts the risk narrative from stolen keys to compromised tooling and human-plus-model trust, a category exchanges, project founders and their comms teams share. The false posts during the window are the part with real market consequence, since followers act on what a verified account publishes. Whether platform-level verification and AI link screening tighten, and how quickly impersonation posts get flagged, is the open question.

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