50 Cent says he was hacked – claims the offender received away with $300 million by utilizing his platform for a pump-and-dump crypto scheme.
“My Twitter & Thisis 50.com was hacked,” the rapper, 48, wrote on his Instagram late Friday.
“I’ve no affiliation with this Crypto. Twitter labored rapidly to lock my account again down. Who ever did this made $300,000,000 in half-hour,” he alleged.
The Instagram put up included screenshots of the “$GUNIT” memecoin, which began at beneath $1 million market worth, and rapidly shot up.
As of Saturday morning, 50 Cent’s X account nonetheless gave the impression to be locked.
His eponymous web site was additionally shut down.
50 Cent – whose actual title is Curtis James Jackson III – was pressured to testify in a chapter submitting in 2018 that he had by no means owned bitcoin and had no property associated to it, The Blast reported on the time.
The clarification got here after TMZ alleged the “Get Wealthy or Die Tryin” musician supposedly made between $7 and $8 million by banking 700 bitcoins.
50 Cent accepted some early bitcoin funds however by no means made any cash off them, he stated.
