According to BlockBeats, on September 5, members of the Near team said that Near’s Twitter account was renamed “Scam” as a marketing tactic to promote a hackathon.

According to BlockBeats, at 8:00 on September 5, Near officially posted on X that around 2:25 this morning, the official X account of NEAR Protocol was hijacked, and the hacker posted a series of posts criticizing the Crypto ecosystem.