"Breaking Bad Star's Hacked X Account Promotes $8M Meme Coin Scam"

Breaking Bad star Dean Norris' X account was hacked to promote an $8 million meme coin scam, according to reports. The actor's account was compromised on Jan. 25, with hackers using a photoshopped picture of Norris holding a notepad showing "$DEAN" and the launch date to promote the meme coin, DEAN.

The hackers also prepared a video of Norris seemingly confirming the token's launch on Jan. 25. "Hey it's me Dean, and uh... January 25th, I'm declaring it's real," said the actor in a five-second clip. The hackers' efforts were successful in convincing many users that Norris had launched his own meme coin and was promoting it on his social media.

On Jan. 26, Norris came online to clarify that his X account was hacked to "sell crypto stuff." After recovering his account, he posted a video clarifying that his account was hacked to promote a crypto scam. "This is Dean Norris actually, and that whole crazy crypto sh*t was a complete fake scam. I was hacked and I just got it back," said Norris, thanking the platform for helping him restore access to the account.

The DEAN token promoted on Norris' page reached a market cap as high as $8.4 million on Jan. 25. However, since the video was posted by Norris, its market cap has fallen significantly, sitting at only $57,000. In the past 24 hours of trading, DEAN has gone down by nearly 76%. The token's trading volume stands at $263,000 while its liquidity is at $46,000. The Solana (SOL)-based meme coin is currently trading hands at $0.0456. Traders are mass dumping the DEAN token, with only five buy orders in the past hour out of the dozens of sell orders pouring in.

In a separate post, Norris called out people on Reddit who accused him of launching a crypto token and using it to "pump and dump" the tokens for a profit. "I clicked on a couple accounts accusing me of lying and looks like THEY were the people pumping it up!!" said Norris, adding that he does not own a Telegram account, and that he rarely uses his