Binance co CEO Yi He reports legacy WeChat hijack as SlowMist warns of gaps
Binance co‑CEO and co‑founder Yi He said on X that her legacy WeChat account was hijacked after an old mobile number was reassigned, underscoring risks for crypto executives on mainstream messaging platforms. In a translated post, she wrote that the WeChat account had been abandoned and tied to a number that was later seized, preventing immediate recovery.
Binance told Cointelegraph the account was restored after cooperation with WeChat’s security team. Blockchain analytics account Lookonchain said the hijackers promoted a token called Mubarakah during the incident and claimed about $55,000 in profit.
The case follows a separate WeChat compromise involving Tron founder Justin Sun. On 30 November 2025, Sun said on X that his WeChat had been hacked and that he was working with the platform to regain access.
After Yi He’s report, SlowMist founder Yu Xuan republished a technical note describing how WeChat accounts can be taken over when attackers hold leaked credentials and can contact two “frequent contacts” for social verification. He said “frequent contacts” may include people never directly messaged but added as friends or briefly engaged in shared groups. In China, mobile carriers commonly recycle inactive numbers after roughly three months, creating openings for credential stuffing, SIM‑linked recovery abuse and targeted social engineering.
Yu Xuan advised high‑profile users to prune unknown contacts, rotate passwords and act on login alerts immediately, and urged OTC desks and wallet operators to avoid casual additions of new contacts.
Binance co‑founder Changpeng Zhao wrote that he has not used WeChat for a long time and cautioned that he would not post memecoin contract addresses there. The episode comes two months after BNB Chain’s official X account was taken over on 1 October 2025; the team said 10 phishing links were posted and about $8,000 was lost before reimbursement to affected users.
As GNcrypto reported earlier, on December 2, 2025 Binance named co‑founder Yi He as co‑CEO alongside Richard Teng at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai. The company said the dual‑CEO structure formalizes her long‑running product and brand leadership while Teng focuses on regulatory engagement, risk and enterprise services. Binance framed the move as balancing growth with compliance and reiterated plans to scale its ecosystem and consumer products without relaxing supervisory standards.
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