American rapper and singer Doja Cat has joined the rising ranks of celebrities to have her account on Twitter (aka X) hacked to advertise a Solana-based meme coin. She was swift in saying to her 24 million followers on Instagram that she was not answerable for the posts.
The Doja Cat account started tweeting crypto content material at 7:15pm ET on Monday, with the primary publish linking to a holding handle with a message imploring customers to “purchase $DOJA or else.”
The hacker has posted greater than two dozen instances and eliminated Doja Cat’s profile image and outline from her account, which has some 5.6 million followers.
Twitter customers had been fast to flag the tweets as being the results of a hacked account. The hacker posted about different celebrities, together with Iggy Azalea, who has apparently embraced crypto and tweets ceaselessly about her $MOTHER meme coin and Crypto Twitter. In response to the Doja Cat hack, Azalea tweeted, “Get rugged if yall need, however I’m cool with that woman in actual life so yall fucked up with that tweet, hackers.”
In response to blockchain data and market knowledge, the brand new $DOJA token—housed on Solana market maker Raydium—seems to have seen comparatively muted exercise in comparison with prior incidents, with fewer than 15,000 transactions producing about $2.2 million in quantity.
It is the newest in a number of incidents involving hacked social accounts belonging to celebrities, often with tens of tens of millions of followers, and involving Solana-based meme cash.
Final month, the Twitter account belonging to former wrestling star Hulk Hogan was compromised to advertise the same rip-off. That was adopted by the account belonging to rapper 50 Cent getting compromised, and to Metallica every week later.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
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