{"id":2585,"date":"2025-06-09T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/paraguay-presidents-x-account-hacked-falsely-claims-bitcoin-as-legal-tender\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:12:03","slug":"paraguay-presidents-x-account-hacked-falsely-claims-bitcoin-as-legal-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/paraguay-presidents-x-account-hacked-falsely-claims-bitcoin-as-legal-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay president\u2019s X account hacked, falsely claims Bitcoin as legal tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Paraguay\u2019s government announced Monday that President Santiago Pe\u00f1a\u2019s X account may have been hacked after it shared a post falsely claiming that Bitcoin had been declared legal tender in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The post, written in English and accompanied by a Spanish-language statement, asserted that Paraguay was launching a $5 million Bitcoin-backed reserve fund and integrating the cryptocurrency into its national financial system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It featured what appeared to be an official government decree, using the national coat of arms and official-looking formatting.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/santipenap\/status\/1932125390153396541?s=46\" target=\"_blank\">now-deleted tweet<\/a> immediately drew skepticism due to its promotional tone, formatting inconsistencies, and absence from any official Paraguayan government channels. No confirmation appeared on government websites or state-run media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The social media account of Paraguayan President Santiago Pe\u00f1a appears to have been compromised, with a post claiming that Bitcoin has been declared legal tender in Paraguay and that a $5 million BTC reserve has been established as part of the national treasury. However, on-chain\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/1932132228643037309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Irregular activity\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>In a statement, Paraguayan officials said the President\u2019s account \u201cpresented irregular activity,\u201d suggesting unauthorized access. They urged citizens to disregard the post and wait for verified information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s official X account has presented irregular activity which suggests possible unauthorized entry,\u201d the government said in a statement, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/paraguay-presidents-x-account-likely-hacked-bitcoin-scheme-2025-06-09\/#:~:text=ASUNCION%2C%20June%209%20(Reuters),promote%20trading%20of%20cryptocurrency%20Bitcoin.\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Countries like El Salvador have made Bitcoin (BTC) legal tender, but Paraguay has not previously announced any such plans.<\/p>\n<p>Paraguayan authorities had not provided further details about who may have accessed the account or how.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraguay\u2019s government announced Monday that President Santiago Pe\u00f1a\u2019s X account may have been hacked after it shared a post falsely claiming that Bitcoin had been declared legal tender in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}