{"id":14932,"date":"2024-07-03T17:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hollywood-actresss-x-account-hacked-to-promote-meme-coin\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T17:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:13:34","slug":"hollywood-actresss-x-account-hacked-to-promote-meme-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hollywood-actresss-x-account-hacked-to-promote-meme-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Actress&#8217;s X Account Hacked to Promote Meme Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The X account belonging to Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney was hacked to promote a meme coin as part of a Pump &#038; Dump scheme.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did someone hack <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sydney_sweeney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sydney_sweeney<\/a>? Post deleted. A couple of coins launched on SOL recently <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E2CKndsQFg\">pic.twitter.com\/E2CKndsQFg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ioachim Viju \u269b\ufe0f BlockHunters (@IoachimViju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IoachimViju\/status\/1808216295449502083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to several messages from the celebrity&#8217;s account, the trading volume of the associated SWEENEY token on the Solana blockchain exceeded $10 million within two hours of its launch on July 2.<\/p>\n<p>Just over an hour after trading began, the asset&#8217;s price plummeted nearly 90% before stabilizing.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, SWEENEY&#8217;s market capitalization stands at $535,000. At its peak, the figure reached $3.88 million, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/9u1rZMMSqD39L3HMF8hZtz13qEFKZsEArYh6qWMN9ykA\"> DEX Screener<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1091.webp\" alt=\"1-1091\" class=\"wp-image-236238\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: DEX Screener.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The administrator of the token&#8217;s related Telegram channel implied responsibility for the hack.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-827.webp\" alt=\"2-827\" class=\"wp-image-236239\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sweeneysol\/\"> Telegram<\/a>.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sydney-sweeney-x-account-promotes-crypto-memecoin\"> Cointelegraph<\/a>, in now-deleted messages, the perpetrator claimed involvement in recent hacks of X accounts belonging to rapper 50 Cent and former wrestler Hulk Hogan to promote fake tokens. <\/p>\n<p>He promised a similar attack on the account of a celebrity more &#8220;famous&#8221; than Sweeney, but provided no details.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported on the hacking of the X account of American metal band Metallica to promote the METAL token on Solana.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/celebrity-x-accounts-hacked-to-promote-scams\">targeted<\/a> X profiles of several influencers and celebrities to promote crypto scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X account belonging to Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney was hacked to promote a meme coin as part of a Pump &#038; Dump scheme. Did someone hack @sydney_sweeney? Post deleted. A couple of coins launched on SOL recently pic.twitter.com\/E2CKndsQFg \u2014 Ioachim Viju \u269b\ufe0f BlockHunters (@IoachimViju) July 2, 2024 Thanks to several messages from the celebrity&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1415,44,1246,40],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-celebrities","tag-cybercrime","tag-scammers","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}