Deputy José Luis Espert denounced that his X account was hacked on Wednesday night, after a series of posts in which promoted the launch of three meme cryptocurrencies baptized $ Libra V2, $ bullet and $ Argentinathat rapid and lost their quote replicating the type of ‘rugpull’ scam that points to unsuspecting investors.
The move began shortly before Wednesday 22 with the publication of two tokens and, despite a series of messages where the deputy claimed that he had managed to recover control of his X account, on Thursday morning he replied again with a third memecoin.
The first token of the three It was baptized $ Libra V2in allusion to the cryptocurrency released by Javier Milei in the middle of last month, and was created on the Pump.Fun platform, which allows memecoins to be launched very simple. They are crypto tokens that can be purchased and sold, but usually do doors inside internet communities as a joke or to build scams.
It was created at 22:02. According to the analysis of the crypto specialist Fernando Molina, an account anchored with the equivalent of 11 thousand dollars in the solana cryptocurrency (85 tokens $ sun) at $ Libra V2, a necessary step so that it can go on sale. This happened at 22:04.
3/ The dynamics of $LIBRA V2 was:
– With a single account, buy the sufficient amount (85 sun or 11k dollars approx) so that the token will be “graduated” by https://t.co/u0dffop510 (curious way of throwing a token)
– Then he sent 25 m accounts $LIBRA V2 to each one. Can be seen … pic.twitter.com/1r6fOkYRRU– Fernando Molina (@fergmolololina) March 20, 2025
Then they sent those $ Libra tokens to 25 accounts. After that high school, at 22:11, the spert tweet was published promoting this new crypt. An hour later, they sold the cryptocurrency, collapsing the price. According to Molina’s analysis, the maneuver took $ 88.5, the equivalent of about $ 12,000.
That is to say, They earned just about $ 1000.
Later, at 23:51, they launched another baptized $ bullet cryptocurrency, in reference to the classic sister hose. It was created 23:49. According to Molina’s analysis, it was anchored with $ 65 (USD 8400) and the crypto wallet (Wallet) that launched it ended up losing about $ 20 sun in the maneuver (USD 2600). A second Wallet had no profits with the maneuver. The entire sequence lasted just three minutes.
Through the X account of one of his advisors, Espert was able to explain everything that happened through a video. “They hacked me the Twitter account, clearly for political purposes. Why don’t they go a bit to shit?” The deputy launched.
“Do you believe that the progress of the ideas of freedom will stop?” He emphasized. And he added: “In this election year, I am prepared for all the dirty campaigns they want.”
Later, at 23:13, Espert tweet from his own account stating that he had regained control of his profile.
$ Argentina and a strange video around the sister account
While it seemed that his account had been recovered, on Thursday morning they returned to tweet from the sister account
“I present the official currency of Argentina: ($ Argentina) as Bukele did in El Salvador, I dream of turning our country into a world example in the adoption of cryptocurrencies. It is a pride to be able to bring this innovation to our people. The future of digital finances begins here, in Argentina!” The libertarian wrote in X at 7:52 in the morning. The crypt had been created 7:41.
$ Argentina calcited the same $ Libra V2 scheme: it was anchored with $ 85 through the same wallets, which later divided between the same 25 accounts. They are fully automated processes through trading robots. However, when selling they ended up recovering only 29 $ Sol, so they would have lost about $ 4,000, Molina said.
But in addition to promoting the cryptocurrency, a strange video was disseminated in its X account where the deputy spoke to the camera and showed a poster with the Argentine name and repeated in English on the date of Thursday, March 20.
As confirmed to Clarion From the deputy’s environment, it was during an attempt to recover access to the account, where they asked Espert to record a video with a handwritten text, a commonly used system to verify the real identity of a user.
However, those who asked for that video would have been the same managers of hacking. “They wrote us from WhatsApp accounts verified by goal, of those that have the badge, asking that we record, all advised by them,” they said.
They also advanced that they are preparing a complaint to justice to investigate the attack suffered by the deputy.
In the middle, Espert gave an interview with Radio Miter to tell that he still did not have control of his account. “They hacked me the Twitter account, and it is still hacked. And for obvious reasons, because we are working with many people to get out of the hacking I cannot give more details,” said Miter.
Espert gave a political connotation to the attack he received: “All of us who are in La Libertad advances have passed several times through these situations, but without a doubt, as I think a hinge choice is coming, there is no doubt that the system is trying to dislodge,” he said, before confirming that they work alongside the SIDE and with representatives of X to track what happened.