Television personality Dean Norris had his X account compromised to advertise a memecoin that exploited his image in a pump-and-dump scam.
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Television personality Dean Norris had his X account compromised to advertise a memecoin that exploited his image in a pump-and-dump scam.
In a video posted on January 26 to his X account, Norris, widely recognized for his role as Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad, stated that he was hacked and described the memecoin, DEAN, as a 'total, fake scam.' The actor criticized Reddit users who, according to him, 'called me all sorts of names for something I didn't do. Go fuck yourselves.
The post advertising the token has been removed, but users captured screenshots of the original and following posts by the hackers, which featured a seemingly altered photo of Norris holding a piece of paper with the ticker DEAN and its launch date.
Based on information from blockchain data tracker DexScreener, DEAN surged to a market cap of approximately $8.43 million on January 25 but has since plummeted to below $60,000. The price of the memecoin has also dropped by over 96 per cent.
In a follow-up statement, Norris mentioned that he does not possess a Telegram account and infrequently uses X. He added, 'I was unaware of the hack until friends began texting me about it.'
Bitpanda, an Austrian fintech unicorn has become the latest cryptocurrency firm to secure a license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework.
In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on Jan. 27, the firm said his fintech unicorn has secured a MiCA license from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
The license, which takes effect immediately, permits the platform to function in all 27 EU member states under a single regulatory framework.
Bitpanda is the second crypto asset service provider (CASP) to obtain BaFin’s MiCA license since the regulation became fully effective on December 30, 2024.
The data protection authority in Brazil has mandated the company responsible for the biometrics in the World ID project to cease providing cryptocurrency or financial rewards for gathering biometric data from its citizens.
On January 24, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) instructed Tools for Humanity (TFH), the company behind the eye-scanning cryptocurrency project World Network, previously known as Worldcoin, to cease offering services to Brazilians starting January 25.
This decision follows an investigation initiated in November after the launch of the World ID project in Brazil.
The enforcement division of the ANPD concluded that providing cryptocurrency as compensation might undermine the legitimacy of user consent for collecting sensitive biometric information.