Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet drew attention in recent days after his social media accounts appeared to begin promoting cryptocurrencies.
His party confirmed on July 22, however, that a hacker was behind the posts made on his X account.
Blanchet’s press secretary, Joanie Riopel, urged the public not to click links in the posts promoting cryptocurrency or “any other link” until further notice.
Riopel said the Bloc hopes to resolve the situation quickly with help from the social media platform.
“I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just received my second payment of 31,000€, credited directly to my account in just a few hours. Know that I’m not trying to scam anyone with this tweet: it really works, it’s completely legitimate,” the post reads.
The post contains a screenshot purporting to show $31,321.45 Canadian dollars in an account.
The Epoch Times reached out to the Bloc for comment, but didn’t immediately hear back. The RCMP deferred questions to the police of jurisdiction.
Other public personalities had their X accounts hacked in recent days, including Sylvain Charlebois, known as the “food professor,” who runs the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.
In the Charlebois hack, the post claimed he had recently purchased a house in California and recommended a certain real estate agent.
The X account of Peter Menzies, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute think tank, was also hacked. The account sent direct messages (DMs) to contacts asking to click on a link, a likely attempt by hackers to steal information or inject malicious code into devices connecting to their server.
The centre encourages social media users to practice good digital hygiene with strong passcodes, exercising caution, and refraining from posting private information.
