50 Cent says he was hacked – claims the culprit got away with $300 million by using his platform for a pump-and-dump crypto scheme.
“My Twitter & Thisis 50.com was hacked,” the rapper, 48, .
“I have no association with this Crypto. Twitter worked quickly to lock my account 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 – whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III – was forced to 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 “Get Rich or Die Tryin” musician supposedly made between $7 and $8 million by banking 700 bitcoins.
50 Cent accepted some early bitcoin payments but never made any money off them, he said.