Rapper-turned-TV producer 50 Cent said a hacker made $300 million taking control of his accounts for a few hours.
The former G-Unit rapper took to Instagram, which evidently hadn’t been hacked, to explain what happened.
“My Twitter and my Thisis50dotcom website was hacked [but] I have no association with this Crypto,” he said.
“Twitter worked quickly to lock my account back down. Whoever did this made $300,000,000 in 30 minutes.”
The crypto in question was a G-Unit-themed crypto, exploiting his fans love for the G-Unit rap band which was hugely popular in the early 2000s.
This happened before, and it’s going to happen again. In fact, oftentimes, actors with bad intentions don’t even need to hack the accounts.
YouTube is awash with fake profiles, which are sometimes even verified for whatever reason, purporting to be associated with Tesla or Musk or other resounding names that people might associate with crypto, and scam people for millions.
What to do? Well, YouTube and other social media should act quickly, and quicker. But at the end of the day, people seem to easily fall for these things.
I still believe financial education and literacy should be taught in school, but I digress.
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