The a16z-backed AI Influencer Account Farm Gets Hacked Again, Hackers Attempt to Use Its Accounts to Spam Anti-a16z Memes

According to 1M AI News's monitoring, the AI influencer account factory Doublespeed's backend system has once again been hacked. Doublespeed operates AI-generated influencer accounts in bulk on TikTok using a phone farm (a large number of real phones centrally controlled to bypass platform detection), having received a $1 million investment last year from a16z's Speedrun accelerator project.

After the hack, the hackers attempted to use Doublespeed's clients' accounts to mass-post a meme mocking a16z, referring to a16z as the "antichrist" in the image, with a caption stating, "Stolen 47MB data, 573 accounts can post, 413 phones have been dumped. The security level of a16z's portfolio is truly unique." The meme was ultimately not successfully posted. Doublespeed co-founder Zuhair Lakhani responded that the unauthorized access has been promptly addressed, involving an old system used to accommodate existing client workflows, which has now been reinforced for security, and no unauthorized posts were successfully made.

This is Doublespeed's second intrusion. The initial breach in December 2025 exposed at least 400 TikTok accounts operated by the company, with over 200 promoting products such as health supplements, massagers, dating apps, most undisclosed as advertisements or non-human. Doublespeed touts the phone farm as a selling point to circumvent social platform fake activity detection, currently focusing on TikTok and planning to expand to X and Instagram. a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen also serves as a Meta board member, while Doublespeed's business model clearly violates Meta's "authentic identity presentation" policy.