Crypto influencers and celebrities’ X accounts hacked

On May 26, the X accounts of various prominent crypto influencers and celebrities were hacked. These popular crypto figures were seen posting and promoting new meme coins, which led to brief price surges. Explore the details of these hacking incidents that took the crypto community to a halt.

GCR’s account shilled ORDI and Luna2

One of the victims was the Gigantic-Cassocked-Rebirth (GCR) account, which belongs to a known crypto investor who profits from contrarian trades. The GCR account has 247,000 followers on X. The account confirmed it had been hacked when the hackers posted content promoting ORDI and Luna 2.0.

The prices for both promoted tokens briefly surged, a sign that the hacker was successful. For ORDI, the price rose by 6%, while Luna 2.0 saw a whopping increase of up to 274%. However, many crypto analysts have stated that this move led to limited gains, as the hacker chose to post two tokens instead of shilling microcap coins. These are also taking crypto casino players by storm, looking for higher stake deposit opportunities caused by the surge.

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