- December 10, 2025
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- Category: BitCoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Investments
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SlowMist’s Yu Xuan advised high-profile users to prune contacts, rotate passwords and act fast on alerts to reduce WeChat takeover risks.
Update Dec. 10, 9:30 am UTC: This article has been updated to add comments from a Binance spokesperson.
Newly appointed Binance co-CEO and co-founder Yi He said on X that her WeChat account was hijacked after an old mobile number was taken, highlighting how Web2 messaging platforms can be used to impersonate crypto executives.
“WeChat was abandoned long ago, and the phone number was seized for use. It cannot be recovered at present,” she said in a translated X post.
