New York legislator's Twitter hacked after appearance before Pa. House committee

By Peter Sterne Shortly after New York State Assembly Member Anna Kelles finished testifying to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives about the environmental impacts of cryptocurrency mining on Monday morning, her Twitter account was hacked by cryptocurrency spammers. “We reached a new ALL-TIME-HIGH! Get ready to receive free $PEPE tokens!” read a tweet posted to Kelles’ Twitter account. The tweet encouraged Kelles’ followers to purchase an obscure cryptocurrency called Pepecoin. The tweet received thousands of likes, making it much more popular than the Assembly member’s usual tweets. Kelles does not think it’s a coincidence that her Twitter account was hacked to promote cryptocurrency at the exact same time that she was testifying about concerns over cryptocurrency mining. She sees the hack as a prank meant to retaliate against her criticism of the cryptocurrency industry. “It was, I mean, flattering to think that I could get that many hits on my own, but I usually get at maybe the absolute most a couple of hundred. And this had 7,000 within 45 minutes,” Kelles told City & State after regaining access to her account. “So it was just clearly set up with a bot to recirculate it and to have as much damage as
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