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, wrote on his Instagram late Friday.
“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 Blast reported at the time.
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.