By Isaac • July 17, 2026 10:24 am •
A hacker took over Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky’s X account this week and used it to publish a polished thread about real-world asset tokenization.
There was no obvious memecoin launch, wallet address, or frantic demand to connect a wallet. The attacker borrowed Chesky’s identity to make a crypto narrative look as if it had arrived from the top of one of the world’s best-known travel companies.
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That is what made the episode unusually revealing.
BREAKING: @bchesky’s 𝕏 account was hacked, posting a since-deleted AI slop thread, per Fortune
— TBPN (@tbpn) July 16, 2026
A credible account, a credible theme.
Fortune reported that the compromised account posted a long, AI-generated thread presenting tokenization
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