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Sydney Sweeney’s X account hacked to promote crypto memecoin

The self-proclaimed hacker behind Sydney Sweeney’s X account also claims they were behind similar recent hacks on 50 Cent and Hulk Hogan.

The X account of American actress Sydney Sweeney was hacked with now-deleted posts promoting a crypto token bearing her name in an apparent pump-and-dump scheme.

The Solana-based token SWEENEY amassed over $10 million in trading volume within two hours of its launch on July 2, bolstered by several promotional posts made from Sweeney’s X account.

“Well I think it’s time… $sweeney is now live 100mc incoming,” said one of Sweeney’s now-deleted X posts shared online, which Cointelegraph could not independently verify.

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Hackers Take Over Rapper 50 Cent’s X Account To Steal Over $3,000,000 in Crypto: Report

Hackers Take Over Rapper 50 Cent’s X Account To Steal Over ,000,000 in Crypto: Report

A bad actor has reportedly hacked into rapper 50 Cent’s X account and stolen millions of dollars worth of crypto after promoting a pump-and-dump scheme. According to a new report by Fox Business, the rap artist says that his social media account was hacked by a scammer who made away with $3 million in under […]

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Rapper 50 Cent claims X account was hacked to promote celeb memecoin

Rapper 50 Cent informed his 32.8 million Instagram followers that hackers used his X account to carry out a multimillion-dollar memecoin rug pull.

Renowned rapper Curtis James Jackson III, better known as “50 Cent,” has claimed that his X account and website were hacked, with hackers promoting a cryptocurrency pump-and-dump token scam.

Also referred to as a “Rug pull,” fraudulent developers created a new crypto token, “GUNIT,” and used Jackson’s large X following of approximately 12.9 million followers to attract more investors and pump up the price before draining its value. The token’s price then crashed to $0.00016.

On June 21, Jackson posted to his 32.8 million Instagram followers claiming that his X account and website had been hacked and that a significant amount of the victim’s funds had been drained from the project.

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Busta Rhymes Talks Cryptocurrencies, Rappers Asks Fans if He Should ‘Buy In’Trevor George Smith Jr., professionally as Busta Rhymes asked his 3.8 million followers on Twitter what they think about cryptocurrencies. Rhymes questioned if anyone was into crypto and how people were feeling about digital currencies at the moment. Busta Rhymes Asks If He Should Buy Crypto The American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor, Busta […]

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Hip Hop Star Nas Calls Himself ‘Cryptocurrency Scarface,’ Mentions Coinbase Investment in New Video

Hip Hop Star Nas Calls Himself ‘Cryptocurrency Scarface,’ Mentions Coinbase Investment in New VideoHip hop legend and recording artist Nasir Jones, known by his stage name “Nas,” recently released a new video with record producer DJ Khaled and rapper Jay-Z. The songwriter mentioned being a “cryptocurrency Scarface” and also mentioned the San Francisco company Coinbase in his rhyme. Nas was an early Coinbase investor back in 2013 and […]

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