The official Instagram account of FC Barcelona was hacked yesterday to advertise a phony crypto mission on memecoin platform Pump Enjoyable.
The hackers claimed that FC Barcelona was “building something massive on Solana,” and promised customers that “we’re going to the moon” because it revealed the token’s deal with throughout two posts.
Nevertheless, there’s no such announcement from the membership’s official web site.
FC Barcelona has over 144 million followers on its Instagram account. At one level, one of many posts, which was viewable for a number of hours earlier than it was ultimately taken down, had 169,000 views, over 1,600 feedback, and 1,400 reposts.
One of many two posts which promoted the phony Barcelona Pump Enjoyable token.
The token, as anticipated, rose and fell like many rugpulls have prior to now. It was created at 0:45 AM UTC, and reached a market of $3 million earlier than plummeting again all the way down to $47,800.
Quantity for the token over the previous 24 hours was $3.5 million, and its creator, underneath the account DmPZBKYXHwE8MFTkUBEWiwEVRek1NNJkje5vcEoWRDEH, made nearly $26,000 in creator rewards.
An FC Barcelona crypto mission isn’t a totally fanciful concept. Again in 2023, the membership partnered with Socios to launch a “fan token” and the membership has beforehand donned crypto sponsor logos reminiscent of Whitebit and Chilix.
Whitebit, a crypto trade with hyperlinks to Justin Solar, continues to be sponsoring the workforce at present.
