Dean Norris, best known for his role in Breaking Bad, has become the target of hackers again.<\/p>\n
His X account was recently compromised to promote a fraudulent meme coin named DEAN.<\/p>\n
An X user who shared a screenshot of the deleted posts described<\/a> the incident as one of the \u201cmost believable\u201d scams they had ever seen on the platform.<\/p>\n The attack began with a tweet from Norris\u2019s official account on the social media platform, which falsely announced the creation of his cryptocurrency. The post stated, \u201cI have decided to launch my own crypto coin named Dean,\u201d and included a contract address for the fake token.<\/p>\n To make the scam appear credible, the hackers also shared a photoshopped image of Norris holding a notepad with the token\u2019s launch date and the ticker symbol \u201c$DEAN.\u201d<\/p>\n The perpetrators also circulated a manipulated video in which the actor appeared to confirm the launch date.<\/p>\n In the five-second clip, he was saying, \u201cHey, it\u2019s me, Dean, and uh\u2026 January 25th, I\u2019m declaring it\u2019s real.\u201d\u00a0 It was later revealed that the criminals had used Cameo, a platform where subscribers can pay celebrities for personalized video messages, to produce the misleading clip.<\/p>\n On January 26, Norris regained control of his profile and posted a video addressing<\/a> the situation:<\/p>\n \u201cThis is Dean Norris actually, and that whole crazy crypto sh*t was a complete fake scam. I was hacked, and I don\u2019t know, I just got it back,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n However, by then, several victims had already seen and acted upon the bogus announcement. Blockchain data<\/a> from DEX Screener revealed that the DEAN token reached a market cap of $8.4 million on January 25. However, its value has since plummeted to $53,000.<\/p>\n Despite the 61-year-old\u2019s attempts to clear his name, many in the community blamed him for making it easier for hackers to manipulate what they thought was his official Telegram channel, \u201cDeanNorrisofficial.\u201d<\/p>\n In a subsequent\u00a0statement<\/a>, the star clarified that he doesn\u2019t have a Telegram account, rarely uses X, and was unaware he had been compromised.\u00a0He also denied accusations from Reddit claiming he launched the coin for a \u201cpump and dump\u201d scheme.<\/p>\n This marks the second time the TV star\u2019s account has been exploited. In September 2024, his social media profile was used to promote another fake token, SCHRADER, based on his Breaking Bad character, which was hosted on the TRON blockchain.<\/p>\n The September incident was also part of a larger hacking spree uncovered<\/a> by blockchain investigator ZachXBT in November. The situation involved as many as 15 popular accounts on X and Instagram, including those of singer Usher and rapper Wiz Khalifa.<\/p>\n Bad actors used these profiles to promote counterfeit meme coins on the Pump.fun platform, collectively stealing as much as $3.5 million.<\/p>\n Earlier in the year, several accounts belonging to major players in the crypto space, including Litecoin, Foresight Ventures, and Holoworld AI, were compromised<\/a> and used to push scam tokens.<\/p>\n In the latest incident of the same nature, hackers gained control<\/a> of Nasdaq\u2019s X account and used it to promote a fake meme coin called STONKS, causing its market cap to rise to $80 million before they rugged it.<\/p>\n The post Breaking Bad Actor Dean Norris\u2019 X Account Used for $8M Meme Coin Scam<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dean Norris, best known for his role in Breaking Bad, has become the target of hackers again. His X account was recently compromised to promote a fraudulent meme coin named DEAN. Details from the Exploit An X user who shared a screenshot of the deleted posts described the incident as one of the \u201cmost believable\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":39534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Pattern of Targeting Celebrities<\/h2>\n