On Saturday, the famous American billionaire and president of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, revealed that he had been the victim of a crypto hack.
He did it with a tweet on his X profile, later deleted.
The tweet was directed at the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai, since this time, according to what Cuban revealed, his email inbox on Gmail would have been breached.
Summary
Mark Cuban hit by a crypto hack
Cuban, who later removed the tweet in which he revealed this attack, stated that he lost access to his Gmail account due to a fake call to their customer service.
According to the billionaire, someone named Noah had called the phone number 650-203-0000 of Google saying that there had been an intrusion into his account that had falsified Google’s recovery methods.
650-203-0000 is indeed the official number for Google Support, but it doesn’t seem like it can be called. In fact, it is the phone number that Google support uses to call in order to be recognized.
Therefore, the story told by Cuban does not seem credible.
In fact, some suspect that that tweet might have also been published by someone else who perhaps managed to hack into Cuban’s X profile.
Mark Cuban: The previous crypto hack
This is actually the second hack against Mark Cuban.
Last year tokens worth a total of $870,000 were stolen from his crypto wallet on MetaMask.
At the time, his version of the facts was that he had downloaded a different version of the software (or the app) of the crypto wallet, and that this other version contained malware. Later he moved everything to Coinbase Custody.
The curious thing is that Cuban’s first major entrepreneurial success was the software sales company MicroSolution, which he founded in the 1980s of the last century.
Cuban, however, is not a software expert, but an entrepreneur whose great success is due to an initiative founded online in 1995, namely Audionet, which the entrepreneur began to finance in 1998, transforming it into Broadcast.com and which was then sold to Yahoo! the following year for 5.7 billion dollars.
He is not even an expert in criptovalute, even though he has been in the sector, as a private investor, for several years now.
The fact that he does not have much experience in using new technologies, despite his fortune coming precisely from there, is probably at the root of these problems related to various hackings of his accounts.
The theft of the funds
Regarding last year’s crypto hack, it was possible to publicly trace the movements of its wallet, given that the public address was known.
So it was possible to bring to light the theft, which Cuban himself then had to confirm.
As for the alleged hack on Saturday, there is no news of any possible theft of funds.
To tell the truth, Cuban has removed all the tweets from the weekend, so much so that now on his X profile there is no trace of this latest hack. Therefore, not only is it not possible to state that funds have been stolen, also because there are certainly no funds on the gmail address, but it is also not yet possible to confirm the hack for sure.
Moreover, although it makes perfect sense that Cuban has a Gmail account in his name, generally entrepreneurs have email addresses on the domain of their companies’ websites, and not on Gmail. Cuban, however, revealed years ago that he has that email address on Gmail, so at least the fact that the address in question is really his is confirmed.
The hypothesis of the hack on X
On the other hand, the hypothesis that it was not actually him who published that tweet seems rather weak.
Why would anyone who managed to get into Cuban’s X profile to the point of being able to use it to post a tweet in his name post such a tweet?
Generally, in these cases, hackers publish advertisements for example for shitcoin in order to induce people to buy them, causing the price to spike for a brief moment.
There are no plausible reasons to believe that it was a hacker who published that tweet, so its authorship can only be attributed to Cuban himself.
It is possible that the entrepreneur then removed it either because he realized that the story of the call to the Google number did not hold up, or because the hack might never have happened.
Since he only claims to have lost access to that email address, one can also imagine that he simply did not remember the password.
It is not even impossible to imagine that at that point, having directly involved the CEO of Google, Google itself intervened to allow Cuban to regain access to his email account, given that it had been known for some time that that address was his.
Furthermore, it does not even seem that cryptocurrencies have anything to do with this latest hack, while they certainly had to do with last year’s hack.
