Ireland’s national police warns of hacked X accounts promoting crypto scams

Ireland’s national police force spent part of October 15, 2026, warning the public about its own social media accounts. An Garda Síochána said two of its official X accounts were compromised and used to promote a crypto scam. The accounts have a combined audience of more than 900,000 followers. What happened to the Garda accounts The affected handles were @GardaInfo, which has nearly 299,000 followers, and @GardaTraffic, which has more than 600,000. According to the Gardaí, unauthorized access began at approximately 11 p.m. on October 14. The force confirmed the breach the following day, October 15. In that window, whoever took control used the accounts to publish hundreds of misleading posts. The messages pushed a scheme claiming to offer XRP “allocations” to users. The posts directed followers toward links tied to a wallet app called Xaman, also known as Xumm. Xaman confirmed the allocation claims were fraudulent. Garda says internal systems were untouched Gardaí said the breach was confined to the X platform and that there were no signs of unauthorized access to internal Garda systems or data. The force also warned the public not to engage with the compromised accounts. That adv...