Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris’ X account hacked to promote $8m crypto scam

Breaking Bad actor Dean Norris says his account was hacked to promote the parts even Dean, who have reached a market capitalization of more than $ 8 million.

On January 25, the Crypto account of Dean Norris was pirate To promote a same corner Created with his effigy, Dean, taking advantage of the actor’s celebrity status as part of a pumping and emptying program.

The pirates used a photoshoped photo of Norris holding a notebook indicating “$ Dean” and the launch date, suggesting to users that Norris had launched his own coin and promoted it on his social networks.

When they were asked for more evidence, the pirates prepared a Norris video apparently confirming the launch of the token on January 25.

“Hey, it’s me Dean, and uh … On January 25, I declare that it’s real,” said the actor in a five -second clip.

On January 26, the Breaking Bad actor put online to specify that his account X had been hacked to “sell cryptographic stuff”. After recovering his account, he posted a video Specifying that his account was hacked to promote a cryptographic scam.

“In fact, it is Dean Norris, and all this crazy cryptographic shit was a false complete scam. I was hacked and I don’t know, I just recovered, ”said Norris, thanking the platform for helping him restore access to the account.

He then asked users to ignore “anything”, but the evil was done.

According to data From Dex Screener, the Dean token promoted on the actor’s page had reached a market capitalization of up to $ 8.4 million on January 25. Since the video has been published by Norris, its market capitalization has dropped so much from its summit that it was only $ 57,000.

During the last 24 hours of negotiation, Dean fell by almost 76 %. The volume of discussions of the token amounts to $ 263,000 while its liquidity is $ 46,000. The Solana (GROUNDThe piece even based on) is currently negotiated at $ 0.0456. The traders are giving up the Dean token, with only five purchase orders during the last hour on dozens of sales orders that flock. On the graph, the value of the token has remained stable in the last 12 hours.

In a separate article, Dean Norris call People on Reddit who accused him of having launched a cryptographic token and using it to “pump and empty” the tokens for lucrative.

“I clicked on a few accounts accusing me of lying and it looks like they are the ones who made the buzz !!” said Norris, adding that he does not have a Telegram account and rarely uses his X account.