American TV persona and sports activities commentator Skip Bayless turned the most recent sufferer of crypto scammers who compromised his X account to advertise a Solana-based token referred to as SKIP.
Shortly after gaining management of the previous ESPN commentator’s account, the attacker posted politically motivated messages endorsing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump whereas selling the SKIP token alongside taglines like “Let’s make crypto great again” and “crypto will thrive with Trump.”
In keeping with information from DEX Screener, the hacker started dumping tokens instantly after a publish appeared on Bayless’s account that includes a cartoon picture of him standing beside the Solana brand, together with the token’s contract deal with.
Nevertheless, the scheme yielded restricted returns, with the attacker managing to safe simply $8,200. The token did handle to achieve a market cap of over $69,000, incomes a list on Raydium, however has since fallen to simply over $4,100 at press time, whereas the token was down over 94%.
Among the hacker’s newest posts additionally focused Vice President Kamala Harris and basketball star LeBron James, with derogatory language. When writing, these posts are nonetheless seen to Bayless’ over 3.2 million X followers.
The TV persona joins an extended checklist of celebrities who’ve had their X accounts comprised this 12 months to advertise related schemes. On November 4, rapper Wiz Khalifa’s account promoted the WIZ token pushing its worth up over 2,000% simply minutes after launch, earlier than crashing.
In June, Rapper 50 Cent was hacked after which the attackers pumped the GUNIT token which allowed them to make over $300 million in simply half-hour. Throughout the identical month, hackers attacked Metallica and hijacked their account, making false claims a few partnership with MoonPay, whereas promoting the unaffiliated METAL token.
