Breaking Bad Actor Dean Norris’ Account used for $ 8 million

Dean Norris, better known for his role in Breaking Bad, has once again become the target of pirates.

His X account was recently compromised to promote a piece of fraudulent memes named Dean.

Details of the feat

An X user who shared a screenshot of deleted messages describe The incident as one of the “most credible” scams they have ever seen on the platform.

The attack began with a tweet from the official account of Norris on the social media platform, which falsely announced the creation of its cryptocurrency. The message said: “I decided to launch my own cryptography piece called Dean”, and included a contract address for the false token.

To make the scam credible, the pirates also shared a photoshopped image of Norris holding a notebook with the launch date of the token and the symbol of the ticker “$ Dean”.

The authors also broadcast a manipulated video in which the actor seemed to confirm the launch date.

In the five -second clip, he said: “Hey, it’s me, Dean and Uh … On January 25, I declare that it’s real.” It was later revealed that the criminals had used Cameo, a platform where subscribers can pay celebrities for personalized video messages, to produce the deceptive clip.

On January 26, Norris regained control of his profile and published a video addressing The situation:

“It’s Dean Norris in fact, and this whole crazy crypto was a false complete scam. I was hacked and I don’t know, I just recovered it, “he said.

However, at that time, several victims had already seen and acted on the announcement of false. Blockchain data Dex Screenner revealed that the Dean token reached a market capitalization of $ 8.4 million on January 25. However, its value has since dropped to $ 53,000.

Despite the 61 -year attempts to empty his name, many in the community blamed him for having facilitated the pirates to manipulate what they thought was his official telegram channel, “Deannorrisofre”.

In a follow -up statementThe star said he had no telegram account, rarely uses X and was not aware that he had been compromised. He also denied the accusations of Reddit saying that he had launched the play for a “Pump and Dump” program.

A celebrity targeting model

This marks the second time that the television star account has been exploited. In September 2024, his social media profile was used to promote another false token, Schrader, based on his Breaking Bad character, which was hosted on the Tron Blockchain.

The September incident was also part of a greater piracy frenzy discovered by the investigator of the Zachxbt blockchain in November. The situation involved up to 15 popular accounts on X and Instagram, including those of Singer Usher and rapper Wiz Khalifa.

The bad players used these profiles to promote counterfeit pieces of memes on the Pump.Fun platform, flying collectively up to $ 3.5 million.

Earlier in the year, several accounts belonging to major players in the Crypto space, including Litecoin, Foresight Ventures and Holoworld AI, were compromise And used to push the scam tokens.

In the last incident of the same nature, the pirates took control From the X account of Nasdaq and used it to promote a false piece of memes called Stonks, which means that its market capitalization amounts to 80 million dollars before Rubaster.