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50 Cent claims hacker made $300 million using his account for crypto scheme

50 Cent says he was hacked – claims the culprit got away with $300 million by us🐎ing his p🅺latform for a pump-and-dump crypto scheme.

“My Twitter & Thisis 50♏.com was hac൩ked,” the rapper, 48, .

“I have no association with this Crypto. Twitter worked quickly to lock my 𒈔account back down. Who ever did this made $300,000,000🎶 in 30 minutes,” he alleged.

The Instagram post included screenshots of ♊the “$GUNIT” memecoin, which started at under $1 million market value, and quickly shot🧸 up.

As of 😼Saturday morning, 50 Cent’s X account still appeared to 🦹be locked.

His eponymous website was also shut down.

50 Cent accepted some early bitcoin payments but never made any money off them, he said.
50 Cent accepted some early bitcoin payments but never made any money off them, he said. X/egodriv

50 Cent – whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III – was forced ꦐto testify in a bankruptcy filing in 2018 that he had never owned bitcoin and had no assets related to it, . 

The clarification came after TMZ alleged the “Ge🔴t Rich or Die Tryin” musician supposedly made between $7 and $8 million by banking 700 bitcoins.

50 Cent 𓂃accepted some early bitcoin payments but never made any monไey off them, he said.