McDonald's hacker bags $700K

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Writer: Deana

McRugged. A hacker made off with $700,000 today in a classic memecoin pump and dump scheme for a token called $GRIMACE. The posts promoting $GRIMACE originated on the X account of McDonald’s very online marketing director, then moved to McDonald’s official Instagram account, which has 5.1M followers. Both turned out to be hacked. Tbh you should just tap into our video coverage of the situation, which deserves a Pulitzer.

Fake News. Get in loser, we’re news laundering. Early this week, an outlet ‘scooped’ that Kamala Harris was “likely to nominate Gary Gensler as Treasury Secretary” if she was elected. Sources? Who cares! For the record, this is the first official statement on crypto from the Harris campaign.

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