Billionaire investor Mark Cuban asserts that any email transmitted from his account “after 3.30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time” on June 22 was not from him.
Mark Cuban, a billionaire investor, claims he lost access to his Gmail account after falling victim to a scam call, just months after losing more than $800,000 in cryptocurrencies.
“I just got hacked at my [email protected] because someone named Noah at your 650-203-0000 called and said I had an intruder and spoofed Google’s recovery methods,” Cuban wrote in a June 22 X post.
This is typically accomplished by deceiving users into disclosing personal information or account credentials by appearing as an official employee of, in this case, Google.
“If anyone gets anything from [email protected] after 3:30pm pst it’s not me,” Cuban informed his 8.8 million X followers.
Although he received encouraging messages from the crypto community, others speculated about the number of communications he would miss while without access.
“When you get your access back, please post a screenshot of the number of unread emails. I’m betting it is up to 5 digits by now,” crypto exchange Kraken chief security officer Nick Percoco wrote in a June 22 X post.
Some questioned whether his X account had also been compromised.
“Is it POSSIBLE that his X account has now been hacked also by the hackers? Therefore they’re trying to get more information,” a user who goes by the name “Mickamious” added.
Cuban’s Crypto Wallet Drained in Recent Incident
This comes nine months after Cuban’s hot wallet was drained of approximately $870,000, a loss that may have been the result of hackers who had been anticipating his return to MetaMask.
Cointelegraph reported in September 2023 that independent blockchain detective Wazz was the first to notice the hack after noticing odd behavior with one of Cuban’s wallets, which the 65-year-old had not used in about five months.
Meanwhile, Cuban has been a prominent proponent of cryptocurrency in recent years, particularly in his efforts to facilitate more favorable crypto regulations in the United States.
Cuban has most recently advocated for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to regulate “all crypto” in place of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to the SEC’s regulation-by-enforcement approach to the crypto industry.
