{"id":23365,"date":"2024-06-23T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.io\/?p=23365"},"modified":"2024-06-23T09:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T06:28:34","slug":"mark-cubans-gmail-account-hacked-in-hoax-call-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/mark-cubans-gmail-account-hacked-in-hoax-call-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban&#8217;s Gmail Account Hacked in Hoax Call Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the billionaire investor,<strong> Mark Cuban,<\/strong> has reported that he was googled and his account in the Gmail was locked after a deceptive call, and months before that, the investor lost over <strong>$800,000<\/strong> in the cryptocurrency wallet. <strong>Cuban<\/strong> posted in an X post under the topic on June 22, \u201cI just got hacked at my mcuban@gmail. com because someone named Noah at your 650-203-0000 called and said I had an intruder and spoofed Google\u2019s recovery methods.\u201d This approach usually entails making people reveal details about themselves or entry details inclusive of passwords as a result of interacting with a fake employee, in this case Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone gets anything from mcuban@gmail. com after 3:30pm pst it\u2019s not me\u201d <strong>Cuban<\/strong> told his 8. 8 million X followers. As positive messages continued to be received from enthralled members of the crypto fraternity, several others paid out rightly guessing the number of messages Cuban would be losing during his time of no access.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_71 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/mark-cubans-gmail-account-hacked-in-hoax-call-incident\/#Community_Reactions\" title=\"Community Reactions\">Community Reactions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/mark-cubans-gmail-account-hacked-in-hoax-call-incident\/#Advocacy_for_Crypto_Regulation\" title=\"Advocacy for Crypto Regulation\">Advocacy for Crypto Regulation<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Community_Reactions\"><\/span>Community Reactions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as you got your access back please share a screenshot with the count of unread mails it should be 5 digits by now,\u201d June 22, said Nick Percoco, chief security officer at <strong>Kraken<\/strong>, in an X post. Some of the users even debated whether <strong>Cuban\u2019s<\/strong> X account had also been hacked. \u201cCould it be that his X account has also been hacked by the hackers as well? Thats why they are trying to get more information,\u201d wrote an anonymous user known as \u201cMickamious. \u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/bitcoin-mining-faces-challenges-but-remains-stable\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This Might Interest You: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin Mining Faces Challenges but Remains Stable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This comes after a previous major hack in September 2023 where Cuban\u2019s hot wallet was emptied of about $870,000. The hack was first reported by an independent blockchain analyst Wazz who observed some suspicious transactions of Cuban\u2019s one of the wallet which remained inactive for nearly five months.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Advocacy_for_Crypto_Regulation\"><\/span>Advocacy for Crypto Regulation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>However, these acts of cybercrime are still rampant and <strong>Cuban<\/strong> continues to advocate for better legalisation on cryptocurrencies in the United States. Recently, he insisted that U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) control \u201call crypto,\u201d as opposed to the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/coinengineernews\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click here to get the latest news from Coin Engineer!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the billionaire investor, Mark Cuban, has reported that he was googled and his account in the Gmail was locked after a deceptive call, and months before that, the investor lost over $800,000 in the cryptocurrency wallet. 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