Breaking Bad actor Dean Norris says his account was hacked to promote Dean Meme Coins, which reached a market capitalization of more than $8 million.
On January 25, Dean Norris’ crypto account was pirate to promote a coin Created in his likeness, Dean, taking advantage of the actor’s celebrity status as part of a pump and dump scheme.
Hackers used a photoshopped image of Norris holding a notepad showing “$Dean” and the launch date, leading users to believe Norris had started his own meme play and was promoting it on his networks social.
When asked for more evidence, the hackers prepared a video of Norris seemingly confirming the token’s January 25 launch.
“Hey, it’s me Dean, and uh…on January 25th, I’m declaring that this is real,” the actor said in a five-second clip.
On January 26, the Breaking Bad actor came online to clarify that his X account was hacked for “selling crypto stuff.” After recovering his account, he posted a video clarifying that his account was hacked to promote a crypto scam.
“It’s actually Dean Norris, and this whole crypto crazy thing was a complete fake scam. I got hacked and I don’t know, I just got it back,” Norris said, thanking the platform for helping him restore access to the account.
He then told users to ignore “whatever it was” but the damage had been done.
According to data From Dex Screenner, the Dean token promoted on the actor’s page had reached a market capitalization of up to $8.4 million as of January 25. Since the video was posted by Norris, its market capitalization fell to its peak at just $57,000.
In the last 24 hours of trading, Dean is down almost 76%. The token’s trading volume stands at $263,000 while its liquidity is $46,000. The Solana (GROUNDThe MEME coin based on ) is currently trading at $0.0456. Traders are dumping the Dean token in droves, with just five purchase orders in the last hour out of the dozens of sell orders pouring in. On the chart, the token’s value has been flat for 12 hours.
In a separate article, Dean Norris calls People on Reddit who accused him of launching a crypto token and using it to “pump and dump” tokens for a profit.
“I clicked on a few accounts that accused me of lying and it looks like they were the people sucking it!!” Norris said, adding that he doesn’t have a telegram account and rarely uses his X account.