{"id":18304,"date":"2024-11-04T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wiz-khalifas-x-account-hacked-to-promote-meme-coin\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:48:16","slug":"wiz-khalifas-x-account-hacked-to-promote-meme-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wiz-khalifas-x-account-hacked-to-promote-meme-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiz Khalifa&#8217;s X Account Hacked to Promote Meme Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 3, unknown individuals hacked the X account of rapper Wiz Khalifa, which boasts 35.7 million followers, and posted a message promoting the fraudulent meme token WIZ. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/177\">highlighted<\/a> by on-chain detective ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfxO275LG2-EBKZt448QZWhVcaQvjYNy5Xp1CVq4Ydzr790gdNyPoFvtqP8DIYveOTLIhnh_8pAIojCV5jVdLiAEhdYav2Qt0eQvFEDJVcUkfdvmQ8pVVHtPUBzwO0tbucOSZYvVauMWcgkJ1rdqNy8ss99?key=FSDBib58XtqlVot2PyYurXe4\" alt=\"Wiz Khalifa's X account hacked to promote meme coin\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot of the fraudulent post. Data: ZachXBT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the tweet, the perpetrators, posing as the musician, announced a token giveaway, claiming he had worked on it with his team. At the time of writing, the post has been deleted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes after WIZ was issued on the Pump.fun platform, its price surged to $0.002518. However, within an hour, it plummeted by 84% to $0.00001419 as holders began to offload the coin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/5n7rAzkUSUk5G1gXbxcD18pKykkrkkvFm3axk7L5pump\">DEX Screener<\/a>, at the time of writing, WIZ is valued at $0.000008563 with a market capitalization of $10,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfe4-XoW97DOky2Dh_qTVCIwI-AKD-vRoY5oC6Ke3NlXb11ADBH8rYvzPkwcUTj81NZoluYuOGFbQ_q-qB1vk0FZnGmWFUxuO6NabHeVlX1-mBWciGfe--ilUMmQBhUpxRuXP9E-1osBF50KRuzRGMvMJg?key=FSDBib58XtqlVot2PyYurXe4\" alt=\"Wiz Khalifa's X account hacked to promote meme coin\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: DEX Screener.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aggregated data from Solscan <a href=\"https:\/\/solscan.io\/token\/5n7rAzkUSUk5G1gXbxcD18pKykkrkkvFm3axk7L5pump\">indicates<\/a> that the two largest holders acquired just over 155 million WIZ tokens at launch, selling them for a total profit of $160,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/175\">ZachXBT<\/a>, the same perpetrator behind the hack of AI bot developer Truth Terminal&#8217;s account, Andy Airey, on October 29, is responsible for promoting the coin.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July, rapper Doja Cat&#8217;s X account was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/doja-cats-x-account-compromised-to-promote-scam-token\">compromised<\/a> to promote a scam token.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 3, unknown individuals hacked the X account of rapper Wiz Khalifa, which boasts 35.7 million followers, and posted a message promoting the fraudulent meme token WIZ. This was highlighted by on-chain detective ZachXBT. Screenshot of the fraudulent post. Data: ZachXBT. In the tweet, the perpetrators, posing as the musician, announced a token giveaway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18303,"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":[1415,1161,1246,40],"class_list":["post-18304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-celebrities","tag-memes","tag-scammers","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"76","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304","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=18304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}