Soccer player Kylian Mbappe's X account was hacked to promote scams
-- Kylian Mbappe's X account was hacked.
-- The page advertised the launch of the MBAPPE token.
-- One trader lost $1 million on it, another trader made $200,000.
-- The posting was promptly removed.
French soccer player Kylian Mbappe's account in social network X (formerly Twitter) was hacked to promote token MBAPPE. The publication was later deleted.
In the post, the attackers posted a contract for the token on the Solana network. The asset itself was directly launched on the pump.fun platform.
According to Lookonchain experts, one of the users invested 7156 SOL ($1.03 million) in this token. After the creators of MPABBE made a rug pull, the rate of the asset fell sharply. The value of this trader's token portfolio collapsed to $9200.
Journalist Colin Wu, in turn, noted that another trader bought MBAPPE for 2 SOL ($288), then sold these tokens for 1,398 SOL ($201,300) at the peak of the price.
Note that after the publication promoting the scam, the attackers posted several more messages on the page. In them, they expressed support for Palestine, noting, among other things, that “Jews have taken over soccer.”
This is not the first such incident. Earlier we reported that unknown people hacked the account of the rock band Metallica to promote the scam.
