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It appears the official X (formerly Twitter) account of President John Dramani Mahama experienced a setback after being hijacked by hackers, who used it to promote a meme coin.
The hackers, aiming to leverage the president’s massive following and influence, promoted a meme coin called Solana Africa.
The series of posts attempted to persuade unsuspecting individuals to purchase the product. However, officials quickly rectified the incident following concerns raised by netizens.
Additionally, the fraudulent posts promoting the meme coin have been deleted from the X account.
This incident has raised concerns among some Ghanaians regarding security breaches and how such an incident could occur on the president’s account, which they believe should be highly protected from such acts.
They argue that this incident could pose a threat to the nation’s security, calling for urgent actions to be taken to address how such a breach could have occurred. Netizens further emphasised that those responsible must be held accountable.
Read some of the posts under the trending topic below:
The office of President Mahama must take serious action on cybersecurity, as the President’s personal account was hacked yesterday. 🫱🏾🫲🏾 /LD4eooOwwf
— EL-DAD (@ChristDeKing) March 17, 2025
President Mahama’s account being used to promote private business likely added people in falling for this fraud.
Ministers are able to respond to random tweets and DM people but they want us to believe nobody was monitoring the NUMBER 1 gentleman’s account?
Wild story 😊
— KWESI 🦚 (@_JustKwesi) March 17, 2025
So it has been compromised? Oh no. There was me thinking Mahama is beginning to love and understand tech and Web3. Back to the trenches.
— Edzenebubu Hofe (@meetedzenebubu) March 17, 2025
has mahama been hacked?
— jack bawa (@kwabenasmh) March 16, 2025
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