On June 22nd,famous rapper Curtis James Jackson III (stage name "50 Cent") claimed that his former Twitter account and website were hacked, resulting in hackers promoting a cryptocurrency scam and defrauding victims of $30 million.The hackers created a new cryptocurrency called "GUNIT" and used 50 Cent's large following (approximately 12.9 million fans) to attract more investors and drive up the price, then drained its value, causing the token price to plummet to $0.00016. On June 21st, 50 Cent posted on Instagram to his 32.8 million fans about the hack and admitted that a large amount of funds from victims had been lost from the project. "Twitter quickly locked my account. Whoever did this, got $30 million within 30 minutes," 50 Cent claimed, stating that he had no involvement with this cryptocurrency scam.
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