TREE NEWS reports: Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said a group impersonating a well-known investment firm’s team approached her on Monday, shortly after the exchange suffered a hack. Speaking on Unchained, Chen said she caught the scam by verifying with the firm’s leader through a separate channel. She did not name the firm or say whether the approach was tied to the breach.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen Says Scammers Impersonated Investment Firm to Target Her
The timing is the tell: an impersonation attempt arriving in the same window as a breach suggests attackers treat exchange leadership as a soft target when operational attention is stretched. Chen's countermeasure — out-of-band verification with the firm's principal — is the detail worth noting, since it worked where trust in the inbound channel would have failed. Whether the approach was connected to the hack remains unstated, and that ambiguity is the open question; attribution here matters more than the attempt itself.
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