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A string of industry influencers and celebrities had their X accounts hacked over the weekend, shilling everything from Luna2 and ORDI to celebrity-inspired memecoins. 
Among the latest victims is Gigantic-Cassocked-Rebirth — known as GCR — a pseudonymous cryptocurrency investor known for profiting from contrarian trades — who&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/GiganticRebirth/status/1794790262633611711" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">confirmed</a> their X account was hacked.
GCR’s X account on May 26 posted about ORDI and Luna2.0, sending both tokens up 6% and 274% momentarily. 
Many commented that the hacker could have used the account to shill a microcap coin but chose to post the two tokens instead — which resulted in limited gains. 
“GCR hacker fumbled the bag hard,” <a href="https://x.com/milesdeutscher/status/1794796583185486003" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">said</a> crypto analyst Miles Deutscher. 
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 “Bro could've picked ANY believable micro cap to pump 10-20x, yet chose to shill ORDI and LUNA2 for a measly 10% wick.”
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ORDI (ORDI) has already amassed a market cap of <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ordi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">$856</a> million and, therefore has less upside than small-cap coins.
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However, the GCR hack could be just one small part of a wider attack on celebrity X accounts, the community warns. 
“GCR already told us today that there’s an operation going on hacking big twitter accounts,” <a href="https://x.com/udiWertheimer/status/1794863806906237149" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">revealed</a> Udi Wertheimer, a Bitcoin developer and Ordinals commentator. 
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 “As more niche celebs are popping up by the minute launching meme coins — on a long weekend when platform engineers are away — i recommend that you guys be very careful.”
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<h3 id="rich-the-kid-posts-memecoin-rich">Rich The Kid posts memecoin RICH</h3>
The X account of American rapper “Rich The Kid” (Dimitri Leslie Roger) <a href="https://x.com/richthekid/status/1794861111646605653" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">posted</a> a link for his 2.3 million followers to buy the new token “RICH” — which was launched on Solana <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-memecoin-tool-pumpfun-claims-ex-employee-exploiter">memecoin creator tool pump.fun.</a> 
It has amassed a $90,000 market cap within the first two hours of launch, DEX Screener data <a href="https://dexscreener.com/solana/aui2fpynsbhvykkv5turn2vf3zmzussr5mvhslotmcfy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">shows. </a>
No statement has been made confirming whether Rich The Kid’s X account was hacked, but the post has been deleted.
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<h3 id="deepfake-or-caitlyn-jenner">Deepfake or Caitlyn Jenner?</h3>
Around the same time, a new memecoin “JENNER,” was promoted by the X account of American media personality Caitlyn Jenner — which has already amassed a $27.1 million market cap since it launched about eight hours ago, <a href="https://dexscreener.com/solana/crr7jdt5lxt6jcrqwqnb2epf1sntn3jxpv3kgdirpatx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">according</a> to DEX Screener.
Industry pundits are debating whether the short by Jenner promoting the coin was a deepfake. However, videos containing what appears to be Jenner and her manager, Sophia Hutchins, have made several statements confirming the posts and videos are genuine.&nbsp;
The JENNER coin was also promoted on Jenner’s Instagram accounts, and Hutchins later ran an X space on Jenner’s account to reiterate no deepfake was involved.
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“Yes, this crypto on my account is real,” the video of Jenner said their 3.3 million X followers.
“If you wanna get in on this, get in in a hurry, OK, get in right now.”
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The JENNER token was also launched on pump.fun. Interestingly, the crypto wallet posted by Jenner is the exact wallet posted by adult content creator Kazumi, who is also suspected to have been&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/CryptoRoxo/status/1794871254824186298/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">hacked</a>&nbsp;when promoting the coin “ZUMI” on May 20. The&nbsp;
The RICH, DOLL and SOULJA tokens were also <a href="https://x.com/CryptoRoxo/status/1794927509785465042" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">allegedly</a> tied to JENNER, one industry pundit claims.
However, Hutchins claimed Jenner's team had no knowledge of these ties when asked in the X spaces.
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