Victim Loses $800K in Airdrop Scam Amid EigenLayer X Account Hack

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EigenLayer’s X account, the second-biggest protocol on Ethereum, was hacked on October 18 to front an airdrop scam. One victim’s wallet was drained of over $800,000 in crypto.

In an X post, EigenLayer Labs highlighted an ongoing compromise of the “@EigenLayer” account handle.

The @eigenlayer handle has been compromised. Please do not engage with any suspicious links and actively double check and verify you are engaging with 'https://t.co/tg4hzOLtP5'.

An update will be provided once secured.

Pseudonymous on-chain investigator ZachXBT initially warned users about the malicious airdrop link, cautioning them not to interact with any links in a Telegram post.

Security analyst Scam Sniffer reported that the scam apparently fleeced at least one unsuspecting victim out of at least $800,000 in cryptocurrencies.

While no account recovery has been reportedso far, the fraudulent posts are actively being taken down.

Despite intervention attempts, the account continues to post malicious links, urging users to engage with “reminders” and “final calls” for the supposed reallocation of EIGEN tokens from EigenLayer’s Season 2 airdrop.

The claim period for Season 2 of EigenLayer’s stakeholder airdrop ended last month, however.

The hacker’s X posts are almost indistinguishable from EigenLayer’s typical post format, even tying themselves into threads containing fake EigenLayer blog entries to mask the scheme.

However, ZachXBT noted a key differentiator: EigenLayer’s official blog URL is “blog.eigenlayer.xyz,” whereas the malicious link redirects users to