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Digital Thief Uses Instagram Phishing Link To Lift $1M Worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty Count us in the group of people who still have no idea how NFTs work, but this latest cyber heist involving the latest blockchain craze is eye-opening. Spotted on The Verge, a thief stole NFTs worth millions of dollars by using the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) official Instagram account to share a phishing link that lifted tokens out of users’ crypto wallets. Bored Ape Yacht Club confirmed the intrusion via Twitter, writing in a tweet Monday morning (Apr.25), “There is no mint going on today. It looks like BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, click links, or link your wallet to anything.” Related Stories In response to BAYC’s tweet, a user who goes by the handle @jatuur shared a photo of what the link looked like and it does ...
Digital Thief Uses Instagram Phishing Link To Lift $1M Worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty Count us in the group of people who still have no idea how NFTs work, but this latest cyber heist involving the latest blockchain craze is eye-opening. Spotted on The Verge, a thief stole NFTs worth millions of dollars by using the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) official Instagram account to share a phishing link that lifted tokens out of users’ crypto wallets. Bored Ape Yacht Club confirmed the intrusion via Twitter, writing in a tweet Monday morning (Apr.25), “There is no mint going on today. It looks like BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, click links, or link your wallet to anything.” Related Stories In response to BAYC’s tweet, a user who goes by the handle @jatuur shared a photo of what the link looked like and it does ...
Phony Stark: The Fact And Fiction Behind Elon Musk
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: picture alliance / Getty Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform Twitter has gotten a lot of attention and some worry. But we’re here to separate the fiction from the facts with regards to the billionaire. Techpreneur billionaire Elon Musk is taking center stage once again after his acquisition of Twitter on Monday (April 25) caused shockwaves around the globe. Many expressed concerns about the South African-Canadian’s intentions behind buying the influential social media platform and what he plans to do if shareholders approve the $44 billion purchase of the company. It’s notable that many right-wing pundits including those on Fox News and far-right extremists were celebrating the news as “reclaiming free speech,” hoping that former President D...
Phony Stark: The Fact And Fiction Behind Elon Musk
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: picture alliance / Getty Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform Twitter has gotten a lot of attention and some worry. But we’re here to separate the fiction from the facts with regards to the billionaire. Techpreneur billionaire Elon Musk is taking center stage once again after his acquisition of Twitter on Monday (April 25) caused shockwaves around the globe. Many expressed concerns about the South African-Canadian’s intentions behind buying the influential social media platform and what he plans to do if shareholders approve the $44 billion purchase of the company. It’s notable that many right-wing pundits including those on Fox News and far-right extremists were celebrating the news as “reclaiming free speech,” hoping that former President D...
Cardi B & Beyoncé Are All Of The Devil, According To Black GOP Candidate
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Olson / Getty The GOP sure does know how to find the ditsiest, most ignorant QMorons in America to endorse for positions of power, don’t they? This is especially true when Republicans start scouring the sunken place looking for Blacky-lackey mascots they can parade around as their resident Black friends. Kristina Karamo, a community college professor who claimed she witnessed election fraud during the 2020 presidential race where not a shred of evidence proving any fraud was discovered, has officially been endorsed by the Michigan GOP as a candidate for secretary of state. Karamo is also apparently a Republican looney-coo…I mean, toon who thinks pop music is music by Of the Devil, by the Devil and for the Devil. It turns out Karamo used to host the ...
Cardi B & Beyoncé Are All Of The Devil, According To Black GOP Candidate
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Olson / Getty The GOP sure does know how to find the ditsiest, most ignorant QMorons in America to endorse for positions of power, don’t they? This is especially true when Republicans start scouring the sunken place looking for Blacky-lackey mascots they can parade around as their resident Black friends. Kristina Karamo, a community college professor who claimed she witnessed election fraud during the 2020 presidential race where not a shred of evidence proving any fraud was discovered, has officially been endorsed by the Michigan GOP as a candidate for secretary of state. Karamo is also apparently a Republican looney-coo…I mean, toon who thinks pop music is music by Of the Devil, by the Devil and for the Devil. It turns out Karamo used to host the ...
Bad Bunny Cast To Star In Spider-Man Spinoff Film ‘El Muerto’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Greg Doherty / Getty Without a Spider-Man to call their own these days Sony has really been banking on their Spidey spin-off films to keep them relevant in the box office game and now not only are they churning out yet another Spidey villain film, but also reaching out to the Latino community at the same time. According to IGN, Sony has announced that they will be producing a film based off on Spider-Man villain, El Muerto, and have cast Reggaeton superstar, Bad Bunny to star in the film! First Bad Bunny becomes the first reggae ton music artist to become “professional wrestler” and hold the WWE 24/7 Title a few months back to actually playing a professional wrestler in a major motion picture. Not bad, hermano. Though El Muerto isn’t exactly the most reco...
Run This Town: Jay-Z’s Made In America 2022 Dates Announced
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mark Makela / Getty Made In America is back for 2022, with new dates for the late summer festival created by Jay-Z having been recently announced. The Made In America Festival is back again for its tenth year, with dates for the 2022 edition being announced on Tuesday (April 26th). The two-day concert event created by Jay-Z and Budweiser will return to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Labor Day Weekend, September 3rd and September 4th. The festival will be held once more at Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the cultural thoroughfare that runs through the heart of the city and ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “From the inaugural festival in 2012 to now, Made In America has had a home on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. We have seen some of music’s most iconic...
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot To Produce A Live-Action ‘Hot Wheels’ Film
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty For generations Hot Wheels have probably been both the most recognizable and probably most under-appreciated toy line on the market, but it’s about to get pushed back to the forefront of the world when it rolls up on the silver screen in its first feature film. Deadline is reporting that Mattel has struck a deal with Warner Bros. and director extraordinaire, J.J. Abrams to produce a live-action film centered around the iconic toy cars that most 80’s babies grew up on. Who asked for this film to be made? No one, but that isn’t stopping anyone from getting it done. How will it play out? Hot Wheels is Mattel’s 54-year-old brand of toy cars, which is billed as the world’s leading vehicle franchise, representing and uniting all segmen...
Something In The Water To Place In Washington, D.C. On Juneteenth Weekend
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Brian Ach / Getty Something In The Water, the music festival founded by Pharell Williams and launched in 2019, still remains one of the top events of its sort some three years later. SITW will mark its triumphant return in 2022, this time outside of Skateboard P’s native Virginia, and instead will take place in the Nation’s Capitol. Pharrell announced the return of Something In The Water on Tuesday (April 26) while sharing that the three-day festival will feature some of the biggest and brightest names across a variety of music genres. Taking place across three stages in the heart of Washington, D.C., Pharrell and Friends, a star-studded affair when it was first rolled out during the first Something In The Water, most certainly stands out. While the...
Blac Chyna Says She Hasn’t Paid Taxes In Years, Doesn’t Even Have A Personal Bank Account
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty For years now many considered Blac Chyna to be all kinds of struggle whether in her public or personal life, but it seems like her financials might end up being the most struggle of them all as she’s stated that not only has she not paid taxes in years, but she doesn’t even have a personal bank account to call her own. According to TMZ, Blac Chyna took the stand on Thursday (April 21) in her civil case against the Kardashian family and while she was being questioned by the Kardashians defense lawyer, Michael Rhodes, she revealed that she hadn’t filed her 2018 or 2019 taxes. As a matter of fact, the last time she filed was back in 2015 for her businesses, Lashed LLC, 88 Fin, and Blac Chyna Inc. Since then she’s been keeping herself o...
MTV’s ‘Making The Band’ Rapper Chopper Arrested For Sex Trafficking, Caught Via Instagram
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty We’re going to guess this was not on your 2022 bingo card. Former MTV’s Make The Band star and rapper Chopper has been arrested for sex trafficking. According to law enforcement, the member of former Bad Boy Records group Da Band also happens to be a pimp. To add more salt to the struggle, Chopper got pinched when cops caught him booking rendezvous via Instagram. Reports TMZ: According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, an undercover vice detective in Nevada posing as a sex worker says Chopper direct messaged them on Instagram with an apparent offer to make money through prostitution. The undercover cop says they searched Chopper’s IG account and noticed several posts related to prostitution and pimping, including...
