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Cryptocurrency analyst Mai Fujimoto reports losing X, Telegram and MetaMask accounts after Zoom call with reported deepfake of acquaintance

Coin Edition (20 June 2025), TradingView and Crypto.news relayed a public account by cryptocurrency analyst Mai Fujimoto. She said her main X account was hacked on 14 June 2025 after a 10-minute Zoom call with what appeared to be an acquaintance whose Telegram account had been compromised. The caller could not be heard and sent a link to fix an audio problem. She believes malware was installed at that point, and the outlets report that attackers then also accessed her Telegram and MetaMask accounts. The outlets describe the caller as a deepfake of the acquaintance. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao commented publicly on 20 June 2025 that video verification may become unreliable. No loss of funds is stated.

AI system
Unidentified video tool
Occurred
14 Jun 2025
Reported
20 June 2025
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Communicated with the person · Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Other Material Harm
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Privacy · Finance
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 1 underlying account
3 claims: 3 reported. 5 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: Unspecified deepfake (reported by outlets, no tool identified)

Reported harm

Fujimoto reported losing control of her X account and, according to outlets relaying her post, her Telegram and MetaMask accounts. No loss of funds is reported.

What remains unknown

  • Whether any cryptocurrency or other funds were taken is not stated. Coin Edition and TradingView refer to the accounts being accessed, and TradingView says the assets were put at risk.
  • The account of the call and of the deepfake rests on Fujimoto's post. The original post was not retrieved, and no outlet reports an independent technical analysis.
  • The acquaintance whose Telegram account was reportedly compromised is not identified and no effect on that person is reported. That person is not counted.
  • The event date is the hack date given by Coin Edition (14 June 2025). The date of the Zoom call is not separately stated.
  • Crypto.news mentions other people reporting similar attacks and TradingView mentions a separate North Korean-linked campaign. Those are different events and are not part of this case.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Three outlets describe the caller as a deepfake of an acquaintance, relaying Fujimoto's account of a video call in which the acquaintance's face appeared. None reports technical analysis, and the original post was not retrieved.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported Mai Fujimoto reported that her main X account was hacked on 14 June 2025 after a 10-minute Zoom call with what appeared to be an acquaintance whose Telegram account had been compromised, who sent a link to fix an audio problem, and she believes malware was installed at that point.

Causal attribution. All accounts derive from Fujimoto's own public post. The malware installation is her belief and was not forensically confirmed in the inspected sources.

Reported Coin Edition and Crypto.news reported that attackers also gained access to Fujimoto's Telegram and MetaMask accounts after the call.

Causal attribution. The outlets narrate this access, which derives from Fujimoto's post as they relay it. No loss of funds is stated in the inspected sources.

Reported Fujimoto said the face on the video call appeared to be her acquaintance and that she suspected nothing, and outlets describe the caller as a deepfake of the acquaintance.

Causal attribution. The deepfake characterisation comes from the outlets' reading of Fujimoto's account. No analysis of the video is reported, so the use of AI is reported and not established.

Sources

3 sources inspected, from 1 underlying account. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.

Two outlets describe Fujimoto as Japanese, which is nationality and is not used as a location. No source states where the call or the accounts were located. No court proceeding is reported.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-29: Three outlets (Coin Edition, TradingView, Crypto.news) relay one first-person account by Mai Fujimoto, a cryptocurrency analyst who publicly described the event under her own name (relayed by the outlets on 20 June 2025) and is named. All claims are reported. The unnamed acquaintance is not identified.

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One person is reported harmed: Fujimoto, who described the account takeover. The acquaintance whose Telegram account was reportedly compromised is not counted because no effect on that person is reported.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Cryptocurrency analyst Mai Fujimoto reports losing X, Telegram and MetaMask accounts after Zoom call with reported deepfake of acquaintance. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-mai-fujimoto-reported-deepfake-zoom-call-account-takeover

BibTeX

@misc{2025_mai_fujimoto_reported_deepfake_zoom_call_account_takeover,
  title = {Cryptocurrency analyst Mai Fujimoto reports losing X, Telegram and MetaMask accounts after Zoom call with reported deepfake of acquaintance},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-mai-fujimoto-reported-deepfake-zoom-call-account-takeover}
}

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